London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is today) at the parish of Saint Lawrence Jewry in the ward of Cripplegate
within in London aforesaid on the fourth day of May in the thirty ninth year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so
forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for
the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Henry
Bateman< no role > new here lying dead by the oath of Robert Hunt< no role > Samuel Bowring< no role >
Thomas Henderson< no role > Henry Dismore< no role > Edward Gregory< no role > Benjamin Holloway< no role >
Ambrose Carter< no role > Stephen Reynolds< no role > Thomas Williams< no role > William overall< no role >
John Janie John Glover< no role > George Galloway< no role > Andrew Vyse< no role > John Thurpp< no role >
Thomas Gibbs< no role > and Andrew Brown< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for
our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Henry Bateman< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Henry Bateman< no role > [..]
on the third day of May in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted a certain quantity of deadly peison called white
arsenic did then and there swallow and take into his body and by means
thereof the said Henry Bateman< no role > then and there became and was mortally
sick and diseased in his body of which said mortal sickness and disease
the said Henry Bateman< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Henry Bateman< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did
in manner and by the means aforesaid person and kill himself In witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Hunt< no role > the foreman of the
said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisition not there hands and seals the day year
and place first above written

Robert Hunt< no role > [mark] Foreman