City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of December in the Nineteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain,
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Frances Life< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Reeve< no role > , Samuel Harris< no role > , John Scot< no role > , John Vallor< no role > , Michael
Roberts< no role > , William James< no role > , John Randall< no role > , Andrew Steane< no role >
George Topham< no role > , Matthew Walker< no role > , Joseph Garlick< no role > , John Price< no role >
Thomas Heelis< no role > and Charles Humfreys< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Frances Life came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Frances Life not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted, on the Twelfth day of February in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a
certain Quantity of Mercury did then and there take drink
and Swallow down, by Means whereof the said Frances Life
became then and there Sick and distempered in her Body,
and of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper
thereby occasioned, from the said Twelfth day of December in
the Year aforesaid until the Thirteenth day of the same Month
and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live, on which said thirteenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid she the said Frances Life of the
Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby
occasioned did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Frances Life, not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did Poison and Kill herself
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said
Robert Reeve< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Robt. Reeve
Foreman}
[mark]