City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King at 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 Ninth day of May in the Third 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King
for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Mary Adams< no role > then and there lying Dead
upon their Oath of James Watkins< no role > , William Banier< no role > , James Cox< no role > , Henry Wood< no role > , Jeremiah
Bullock< no role > , William Barnet< no role > , Isaac Harrison< no role > , James Kennedy< no role > , Charles King< no role > , Nathaniel
Moore< no role > , James Johnston< no role > , William Hunter< no role > , William Howard< no role > , and Christopher Morgan< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and
charged to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when how, and by what Means the said Mary
Adams< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Adams< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day of May
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
a great, Quantity of White Arsenic, being a deadly Poison, into a certain quantity of Liquid
did then and there put and mix; and the said White Arsenic so put and mixt as aforesaid, she
the said Mary Adams< 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
Mary Adams< 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 from the said seventh day of May in
the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day of the same Month in the same Year, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County, aforesaid, did languish, and languishing did live; on which said Eighth
day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
she the said Mary Adams< no role > if the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper occasioned
thereby, did dye, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Mary Adams< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and kill himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said James Watkins< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands,
and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

James Watkins< no role > Foreman