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 Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of April 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
Martha Lee< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Amos
Chaplin< no role > , William Sanderson< no role > , John Hudson< no role > John Clark< no role > ,
Thomas Yeoman< no role > William Greenwood< no role > Patrick Campbell< no role > Edward Roberts< no role >
Thomas Weston< no role > Thomas Francis< no role > , William Gardner< no role > Robert Lilly< no role > Thomas
Speeding< no role > , John Gresham< no role > George Carter< 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 Martha Lee< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Martha Lee< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted, on the Twenty fourth day of April in the Year aforesaid
a great Quantity of Corrosive Sublimate being a deadly Poison,
into a Quantity of Water did then and there mix and put, and
the said Corrosive Sublimate so put and mixt as aforesaid
she the said Martha Lee< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid, did
then and there take drink [..] Swallow down, by Means whereof
she the said Martha Lee< no role > became then and there Silk and Distempered
in her Body, and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned, from
the said Twenty fourth day of April aforesaid until the Thirtieth day of
the same Month at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live on which said Thirtieth
day of April, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
she the said Martha Lee< no role > of the Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper
occasioned thereby did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Martha Lee< no role > 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 whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Amos
Chaplin< 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 > Coroner

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