City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 107 of 63123rd February 1795


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Information of Witnesses taken at the parish of
Saint Bridget at Bride in the Ward of
Farringdon without in London the 23d day
of February 1795 on view of the body of
John Rittson< no role > there lying dead.

Sarah Scraggs< no role > of Saint Johns Lane near West Smithfield
wife of Joshua Scraggs, Undertaker , maketh oath that the
last attended upon the deced about five months, during all
which time he has been ailing & in a Precasions state of he [..]
-He was a prisoner in the Fleet prison-Says that he has
kept his bed about a Week, and was in a very low languishing
way until last Saturday night when he died-Says he was
attended by a medical assistance, and Dept. says he died a
natural death.

Sworn this 23d. day of Febry 1795
before me
Thos. Shelton Corr.}

The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Scraggs< no role >




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