City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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Image 159 of 67228th March 1791


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Deposition of Witnesses taken at
London, that is to say at the Parish of
Saint Bennett Finck in the Ward of
Bread Street in London aforesaid the
28th: day of March 1791 on view of the
Body of John Stewardson< no role > now here lying
Dead.

Ann< no role > the Wife of Lewis Geary< no role > of a Lodger at then
Bloghsin a House belonging to Mr. Blighs situate
in Lamb Alley Bishopsgate Street London Weaver
maketh Oath that the hath attended as a Nurse to the
deced Joseph Stewardson< no role > late of Spread Eagle Court
Thread needle Street Brazier for these five Weeks
hash-that he complained very much of a violent pain
in his head-that sometime peused to get up at Seven
O Clock in the Morning at other times the lay a Bed till
12 or One O Clock in the day-that he often cryed out
with a violent pain in his Stomach and med to say
something was tearing him to pieces-that when the
deced was taken with those pains he used often to be
imensible and used to talk very wildly-saying that
the sheriffis Officers were coming to take all his
Property-that when Dept. has been in the Room to
make the deced's Bed he used to talk very strangely
desiring Dept. to left the Bed up that he might lay
on the Matrass and that Dept. mights mother him
with the Bed-That this day sennight two Gentleman
Friends of the deced persuaded the deced to go out
that the deced appeared very much alarmed and sayed
he was afraid for fear the Sheriffs Officers would come
and take his property and his po [..] which Dept: thinks
was occasioned by the State of Mind the deced was in
that there were no sheriffs Officers about the place Dept.
thinks the deced was in very good circumstance but
that he often of pressed his apprehnsions that the
Should come to want and always appeared in a




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