City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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Image 335 of 85711th June 1799


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


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of the late Henry White< no role > of No. 3 Hall Moon Street Piccadilly in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the eleventh day of June 1799
in the thirty ninth 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 Anthony Gell< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City
and Liberty, on View of the Body of the said Henry White< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Henry White< no role > came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say that the said Henry White< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory understanding
but lunatic and distracted in the tenth day of June in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid a quantity of white Arsenic, being a dead by
Poison in warm water did then and there take, drink, and swallow does
by Means whereof he the said Henry White< no role > be came then and there sick
and distempered in his Body and of the Poison aforesaid and of the
Sickup and Distember thereby occasioned then and there on the said
eleventh day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty aforesaid died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Henry White< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and understand but
lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
did poison and Kills himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner }

P. J. Kelly
Foreman
Geo Montague Seares< no role >
Alexr. Pope< no role >
Thos. Gibbs< no role >

B. Frembelle
Rowland Blore< no role >
Josh Nichols< no role >
William Hallsok< no role >
William Smith< no role >
Robert Martin< no role >
John Francis< no role >
John Webb< no role >




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