London
Informations of Witnesses
taken at the parish of Saint Andrew
Holborn
in the ward of Farringdon
without in London
aforesaid on the
5th day of September 1791 on view of
the Body of Patience Braniffe now
here lying deced.
William Hopkins< no role >
Kilpin of Bartholomews
Hospital London Surgeon
maketh Oath that between the
hours of one and two in the afternoon of Wednesday the 24th.
of August last the deced was brought into Saint Bartholomews
Hospital in or state of insensibility from some injury she had received
as Dept. understood from a Cart that Dept. in Company with
some other Gentlemen of the faculty belonging to the
Hospital examined the deced that they discovered a
considerable confusion over the left Eye of deced that
the deced continued in a state of insensibility until Sunday
moon when she appeared sensible that Dept. questioned
the deced ask the injury she had received but could get
no answer respecting it from her that the deced appeared
to get better until the Thursday following the Sunday
when she changed very much and appeared to [..] be in
[..] a dying state that she continued to get worse daily
that on the Thursday afternoon between the hours of [..] four
and first on giving to visit the deced he discovered that she
had been delivered of a dead Child that the Child lay dead
in the Room when Dept. went in that the deced appeared then
to be in a dying State that Dept: saw the deced next Morning
Friday last about Eleven OClock that she appeared then in
a bad state that Dept. saw the deced again on the Friday
Evening that she appeared much worse and on Dept. going
the next Morning to see the deced he found her dead
that about two OClock the same afternoon [..] Dept. in
company with some other Gentlemen of the faculty belonging
to the Hospital opened the head of the deced and upon examination
they found a fracture extending from [..] the left side
temporal borne a cross the top of the Scull to the right temporal
borne and onopeningopening the Scull when they discovered
a large quantity of extravacated blood lodgedinthe [..]
petrous part of the left temporal borne which fracture