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

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deced any Questions he always answered quited different
to the Question asked from which circumstance and from
his behaviour whilst going to the Watch house induced
Dept: to think the deced was disordered in his senses

J. Myott

James Dean< no role > a Prisoner in the [..] Wood Street
Compter maketh Oath and saith that between eight
and Nine OClock on Sunday Morning last Dept. was
desired by the Turnkey to go up to the Room where the
deced was to unlock the door in order that the deced
might come down into the yard of said Prison that
when he went into the Room he saw the deced
pulling the Mortan off the Walls-Dept. desired the
deced to come down which the deced did-and went
into the Chapel of said Prison where me behaved so
bad that the People who were there turned him out
that then the deced went up to his Room as Dept: believes
that about an hour after Dept: carried him the Prison
allowance of Bread the deced would not take it
Dept. then left him-that abot: the hour of two in the
Afternoon of same Day Dept. carrd. up a Bason of Booth
for the deced which he gave into the deced who took it
and put it down on the Floor where he was then sitting
Dept: then desired him [..] not to break the Bason
Deced sayed he wod. not then Dept: left him about
½ an hour after Dept. went up to deced's Room in
order to fetch the said Bason when he came there he
found the deced standing near the Window of said
Room with his hands upon the Window crumbling a
bit of Mortar and the Bason on the floor where it
it was when he left the deced as before stated-that there
did not appear to be any Broth taken out of the Bason
Dept. then desired the deced to come down Stairs to the
fire the deced appearing to be Weak and as if he
was Cold-that then Dept: went down and [..]
got one of his fellow Prisoner to go up with him in
order to fetch the deced down he appearing to Weak
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