APPENDIX.
PART III.
The determination of the College concerning
the Questions proposed to
them by the King's Majestie about
the death of Joseph Lane.
The College of Physicians in London being lawfully
assembled by the command of their Sovereign Lord the King,
about certain questions proposed concerning the death of
Joseph Lane, reported to be killed by poison, and having
made a diligent search, and well considering all circumstances
relating; 1. As to the state of the body of the foresaid
Lane; 2. As to the disease which (by a long series of
violent symptoms) brought him to his end; 3. As to the
kind and appearance of his death; 4. As to the observations
made upon his dead body by the Physicians and Chirurgeons
present; 5. As to the conjectures taken from the strict examination
of a bolus extremely suspicious, whose parts were
artificially separated, found in Mr. Lane's house when dead,
and after brought into Court before the Judges, and from
thence to the Physicians at their College: To whom (by
the command and in the name of the King) Letters were
wrote from the Right honourable Sir John Cooke principal
Secretary of State that they might diligently enquire and
give a faithful account to the following Questions, 1 Concerning
Lane's death, whether it was procured from Poison?
2 Their opinion about a purging potion carried the 4th of
