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

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Image 354 of 39522nd November 1762


City and Libty
and Westmr.
in the County
of Middx }

Informations taken this 22d
November 1762 at the Parish
of Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of Westmr .
on View of the Body of Robert
Munro
< no role > lying dead at St. George's
Hospital within the said Parish
and Liberty.

John Loveland< no role > a patient in Richmond Ward
in the Hospital of St. George within the Parish
and Libty aforesaid on his Oath Saith that the
deced was a patient in the same Ward with
Dept. for a Complaint in his Head says that on
Saturday Morning last as two or four and six on Hearing a noise
like a rattling in the Throat [..] which Seemed
to come from deceds Bed Deponent went to
the deceds Bed, and found him in his Bed upon
his Breech with his Threat cut and shirt
very Bloody, and says he was speech less but
not dead - says be desired the porter of the
Hospital to be called, says be came and
the Surgeon of the House was sent for, and he
came and did what he thought necessary, says
the deced dyed about noon; says the deced had
been a patient in the Hospital about a Month
and appeared to Dept. to be very low Spirited

John Loveland< no role >

Thomas Dover< no role > another patient in the Same Ward
on his Oath Saith that Saturday Morning upon
John Lovelands< no role > alarming the Ward that deced
had cut his Threat Dept. (being in Bed) got up
directly and went to deceds Bed where he saw him
with his Head Lying agt. the Beds Head, his Throat
being cut and a great Quality of Blood about him
says he Discovered a Razor Bloody shut upon the
Quiet of the Bed. says he took up the Razor and




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