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 Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of January in the twenty fourth
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 Samuel Crisp< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Potier< no role > Benjamin Arnold< no role > , Francis Glassop< no role > ,
Jabez Parry< no role > , John Pearce< no role > , William Smart< no role > , Henry Somes< no role > ,
John Fawcet< no role > , George Klugh< no role > , Thomas Sylvester< no role > , Thomas Ellis< no role >
Nathaniel Swaine< no role > and Thomas Wilkinson< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Samuel Crisp< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Samuel Crisp< no role > not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted on the Tenth day of January in the year aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, a great Quantity of the Solution of Substitute being deadly Davison
did take drink and swallow down, by Means whereof he the
said Samuel Crisp< no role > became then and there [..]
distempered in his Body, and of the Poison aforesaid and
of the Sickness and Distemper thereby occasioned; at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the
said Samuel Crisp< no role > on the Tenth day of January aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Samuel Crisp< 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 William Potier< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Wm. Potier [mark] Foreman