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

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Image 413 of 46520th December 1788


London Information of Witnesses taken at the parish of Christ Church
in the ward of Farringdon within in London aforesaid on the
20th. day of December 1788 on view of the Body of George Buckland< no role >
then and there lying Dead

William Wright< no role > a Prisoner in His Majesty's Gaol of Newgate who being
on his Oath [..] saith that the Deceased who also was a Prisoner in the said
Goal was brought into the Sick Ward of the said Prison about three days
since ill of a Fever that he continued so ill until this morning the
Twentieth day of [..] December Instant when he departed this life about
five OClock [..] Saith that he was regularly attended by the Physician
of the Gaol and that he very believes the said Fever to have been the cause
of his Death

Sworn the Twentieth day
of December 1788 before me

William
Wright




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