Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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[..] Inquisition [..] Taken for [..]
[..] Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County [..]
of May in the Twenty first 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 Phillips< no role > one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County on View
of the Body of Elizabeth Sanders< no role > then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of John Inman< no role >
William Sango< no role > William Hawkins< no role > , Christopher Duff< no role > , Samuel Harper< no role > , Thomas Sims< no role > , William
Farmer Abraham Harman< no role > Edward Barnes< no role > , William Welsh< no role > , John Thurman< no role > Isaac Page< no role > , Henry
Mills, Daniel Carter< no role > , Joshua Flather< no role > Robert Wittam< no role > and James Sheen< no role > , good and lawful men of
the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire
for our said Lord the King, when how and by what means the said Elizabeth Sanders< no role > came to
her Death, Do upon their Oath Say, That The said Elizabeth Sanders< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty
Eighth Day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid
One Drachm of White Arsenick, into a certain Quantity of Liquid to the Jurors aforesaid
unknown did then and there put and Mix and the said White Arsenick so put and
mist as aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Sanders< no role > not being of sound Mind, Memory
and understanding but Lunatic and distracted as aforesaid Did then and there take
drink and swallow down [..] By Means whereof she the said Elizabeth
Sanders then and there became sick and distempered in her Body and of the
Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned she the
said Elizabeth Sanders< no role > on the Day and Year aforesaid at the Parish and County
aforesaid Did die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Elizabeth Sanders< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did poison and
Kill herself

In Witness whereof as will the said Coronor as the said John Inman< no role > the 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 and Year first above Written

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno Inman< no role > [mark] Foreman




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