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

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Image 120 of 63124th February 1795


Henry Hilder< no role > a Carpenter lodging at the House of Edward
Holmes before mentioned maketh Oath that between three & four
O Clock on Sunday afternoon last in consequence of the alarm given
by Penny the first Witness she went out of the House & after
speaking to one [..] Thomas Muffaty< no role > he & Muffaty
returned to Mr. Holmes House & went up to the Garret
Printing Office of Mr Holmes House that the Door was open
and the deced hanging by a small piece of Cord from a Staple
in the Ceiling of the Roomthat Dept. cut the deced down
that he was quite warm but dead-that a Surgeon having
been sent for came that means were tried to recover the deced
but without effect-Dept. has known the decedaboutten Years
thatfor the whole of thatduring that time Dept. has observed
the deced at the fall & change of the Moon to be in a dull
Melancholy state of Mind so much so that Dept. considered
him as deranged at those times

Henry Hilder< no role >




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