Southwark

Informations of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Saint George in the Borough of
Southwark in the County of Surrey on the 29
day of December 1788 on view of the Body of
Jonathan Boxhall< no role > then and there lying Dead

Thomas Groam< no role > a Prisoner on His Majesty's new
Gaol in the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey
maketh Oath and saith that he hath known the deceased
Jonathan Boxall< no role > about three Months
that he was also a Prisoner in the said Gaol that the deced
has been very ill and sickly in so much that he was
hardly able to get up and down that he has heard the
deced complain greatly of a violent pain in his Bowels
insomuch that he has sayed he was oblige to go to the
Necessary ten or a dozen times in the NightThat above
eight O'Clock on Friday Night last Dept. going to the
common Necessary of the said Gaol that on going into
the Necessary Dept. Rick sd something with his foot that
Dept: went to get a Light (having none then) and on his
return with a Light he went into said Necessary and
found the deced lying, upon his Back upon the floor
of the Necessary with his feet towards the seat dead
[..]

Sworn the 29th. December 1788
before me}

Thomas Groom< no role >