MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the seventeenth Day of February in the twenty sixth 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
Sarah Waggstaff< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Shuter< no role > , William Hobart< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Michael Cullen< no role > , Francis Rogers< no role > Joseph Harrison< no role >
John Taplin< no role > , William Hammond< no role > , William Hall< no role > , Luke Davis< no role > , Edward Ewer< no role > , Robert Walker< no role > Joseph
Hawes Robert Hornes William Holmes< no role > John Ford< no role > Edward Owen< no role > Thomas Cave< no role > Edward Dunfee George< no role >
Wainwright and Robert Jones< 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 Sarah Waggstaffe< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Sarah Wagstaff< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourteenth Day of February in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid a great Quantity (to wit) Half an Ounce
of White Arsenic< no role > being a deadly Poison into a certain Quantity of Water led then and there put and
mix And the said White Arsenic< no role > so put and mixt as aforesaid In the said Sarah Wagstaff< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted did then and there
take drink and swallow down By Means whereof she the said Sarah Wagstaff< no role > became then and there
sick and distempered in her Body And of the Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness and distemper
thereby occasioned she the said Sarah Wagstaff< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Sarah Wagstaff< no role > not bing of sound Mind Memory
and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Shuter< 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
Thos Shuter [mark] [..] Foreman