City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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The Examination of Roger Moore< no role > the
Father of the deced who app [..]
[..] before me his Majesty's
[..] Westmr.

This Examinant Saith that the deced has been
in a bad State of Health for about four years
on which Account he was carried to Bath and
from thence to Bristol ; and was all In patient in Saint
Thomas's Hospital last Summer and after being
sometime at home, was admitted an In patient in
Guys Hospital and last Winter was an out patient
there; that about a fortnight last post the deced
was very ill and took to his Bed on Thursday the
Twenty Seventh of May last, that for some short
time a Woman that Worked for deced, attended him
and that after robbing this Examinant she went
every and this Examinant attended his Son himself
and was at House with deced last Sunday, when he
was very bad. that he gave the deced some Salts
by the directions of Mr Shelborn a Chymist in
Brewer's Street and that a the afternoon he had
two Stools, that the deced was very helpless with
respect to his Limbs. says that the deced dyed on
Monday the 31st. of May last, about twelve o' Clock
at night, this Examinant being then in Bed
with the deced. that on that Monday between eleven
and twelve in the Morning be came to a publick
House, the City of London , in Berwick Street
and there staid about and hour and half and then
went Home and found the deced in Bed as he left
Ann, and deced being inclinable to Sleep desired
Examinant to draw the Curtain, which he did and
after Staying there about an hour and half Examt. [..]
went again to the same publick House and staid
there till near five in the afternoon, when he went
Home and discovered his son lying on the Floor at
the Foot of the Bed between that and a Table and




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