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The Severall Informations of John Winsor< no role > Susanna Crago< no role > and Catherine
Whistler
< no role > taken & acknowledged on Behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
touching the Death of Richard Monk< no role > , taken at the sign of the Black
Lyon in Castle Street in the parish of St George Bloomsbury on the eleventh
Day of January 1760 on an Inquisicon then & there taken on View of the Body of
Richard Monk< no role >

Joseph Windsor< no role > of Hart Street Bloomsbury Surgeon being sworn says that
to this Deponent hath taken View of the body of Richard [..] Monk< no role > now
lying dead this 11th. day of January 1760. and finds a Bruize the markconfusion on the
left Tample
of a Blow on his left Temple which this Deponent thinks
was the Causes of his Death and this Deponent also found a Contuzed wound
on the Jaw bone on the sd left side of the head of the dewd about an Inch & half
long but doesnot think that wound was the Cause of his Death

Jos: Winsor< no role >

Susannah Crago< no role > of Burdock Street St. George Bloomsbury Wido being
sworn says that on Wednesday the 9th. of January 1760. Deponentabout
between seven & 8 in the morning heard a Report that Mrs. Hester Monk< no role >
had been to drown herself then Deponent went into the House where
Mrs Monk & her dead Husband livedinwch was the next door to
Deponents house & going into the room where the dead & his Wife Hester
used to lye on the ground floor and saw the Husband Rich and Monk
lying cross the Bed with a Shirt & a Wastcoat or two in which he used
to take his Rest and the bed Cloths covered him intriely except his
Face then Deponent felt his hand & said immediately his dead
then many persons cause into the Room & two men unknown lifted him the
deced up and Deponent saw a wound war the jaw bound on the left side
of his head and the Shirt & wastcoats &wearthe Sheet where he lay were bloody
Susannah Crago




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