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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth day of November in the twenty fourth
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 George Heming< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Fowler< no role > George Peirce< no role > David Lyell< no role > William
Bourdillion< no role > , John Venables< no role > Michael Downs< no role > , William Gower< no role >
William Wiggon< no role > Daniel Fulston< no role > , Samuel Freeman< no role > Henry Reynell< no role >
James Winkfield< no role > , William Roberts< no role > Thomas Wormwell< no role > Thomas Allen< no role >
and William Roberts< 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 George Heming< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Heming< no role > , not
being of sound Mine Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted on the Twelfth day of November in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid a great Quantity of Laudanum being a
deadly Poison into a certain Quantity of Water did then and
there put and mix, and the said Laudanum so put and mix'd
a aforesaid he the said George Heming< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted as
aforesaid did then and there take drink and swallow down; by
Means whereof he the said George Heming< no role > became then and there Sick
and distempered in his Body of which said Sickness and Distemper
he the said George Heming< no role > on the said twelfth day of November
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said George
Heming< 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 himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Fowler Foreman
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
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

Thos. Fowler< no role >
Foreman