City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1798 - 28th December 1798

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Image 42 of 62418th January 1798


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Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish of
Saint Dunstan in the West in the
Ward of Farringdon without in London
the 18th. January 1798 on view of the
body of John Martin< no role > there lying dead.

Willis Chapman< no role > of Fleet Street in the City of
London Surgeon maketh oath that last Thursday Dept.
was called in to see the deced. That about two oClock of
same day he did seeknestthe deced at his own Apartment
and says he appeared to Dept. to have lost the use of his
leftside and partly his speech with a low inter instant
pulse his intremities cold and a difficulty of resporation
Dept. says he believed the deced Lad had on appeplestie
fit which occasioned the he presud, symtoms. Dept. saw him
several times afterwards, and says the above symtoms
increased until the time of his death which happened on
Saturday morning Dept. says he believes the death of the
deced was occasioned by Appoplexy and that he died a
natural death.

Willis Chapman< no role > .

William Cruikshanks< no role > of Leicester fields Surgeon
maketh oath that last Sunday dept. opened the body of
the deced, says his Stomach and intestines were in a healthy
state is that on the right side of his brain was a quantity
of cragulated blood about the size of a stens egg which was
occassioned by a rupture of some of the Vessels of his brain
And which as dept. believes had occassioned his death.

W Cruikshanks




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