City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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Information of Witnesses taken at the precinct Bridewell
Hospital in the ward of Farringdon without in London
on the 22d. day of July 1788 on view of the Body of
Margaret Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead.

Elizabeth Tramp< no role > Matron of Bridewell Hospital who being on
her Oath and saith she has known the Deceased for these three
weeks past says she was a prisoner confined there that yesterday
morning about 7 O clock the 21st. Instant she called her as usual and the Deceased
answered her and was then very well saysshe wasthat she was
called a little before 8 and Informed by a Woman prisoner that
the deceased was taken with a fit of [..] Coughing and she beleived
she was dying thatDeceaseDeponent then went to the apartment
of the deceased and the blood was gushing from her mouth and
continued in that Condition about half an hour when she died
Deponent saith she never left her until she died that she believes
she had broken a Blood Vessell which was the Occasion of her Death

Sworn the 22d day of July 1788

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Mary [mark] Tramp< no role >
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