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<p n="1344"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1290">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1291">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1292">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1293">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1294">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date262">Twentieth day of September</rs>
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in the Eighth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace and God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ387">Gentleman</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-2">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-3">Edward<lb></lb>
Britten</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-4">John Dibbs</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-5">John Berry</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-6">John Debenham</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-7">Nathaniel Howell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-99">Daniel Machin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-8">James Peter Coglan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-9">William Hempson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-10">Benjamin Cann</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-11">Robert<lb></lb>
Davidson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-12">John Cock</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-13">Thomas Cook</rs>
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-14">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-15">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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, not being of<lb></lb>
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on<lb></lb>
the Nineteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, a great Quantity of Yellow Arsenic, being a<lb></lb>
deadly Poison, into a certain Quantity of hot Water, did then and there put<lb></lb>
and mix, and the said Yellow Arsenic so put and mixt as aforesaid, she the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-16">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but<lb></lb>
lunatic and distracted as aforesaid, did then and there take drink and swallow<lb></lb>
down; by Means whereof she the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-17">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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became then and there Sick<lb></lb>
and distempered in her Body, and of the Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness<lb></lb>
and Distemper thereby occasioned, did languish about five hours at the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and<lb></lb>
there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-18">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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, not being of sound Mind Memory and<lb></lb>
Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid, did Poison and kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1344-19">Edward Britten</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written.</p>
<p n="1345"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1345-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ388">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1346"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1346-25">Edwd. Britten</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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