City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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Image 90 of 44110th March 1763


City and Liberty
of Westmr. in the
County of Middlesex }

Informations taken this tenth day of March
1763 at the Parish of St. James within the Liberty
of Westmr . on an Inquisition taken on View
of the Body of William Broder< no role > lying Dead in the
said Parish

Thomas Howard< no role > Servant . to John Locke< no role > living in
St. James's Market on his Oath saith that he came
yesterday Morning about five o Clock to his Master's
Stables in Bridle Lane to look after his Horses saith
that in about three Quarters of an hour afterwards he
discovered the Deced in the Rack in the said Stable with his Head down word
and his Heals up right and his Stick [..] and verily believes that the
Deced was then Dead Says he Found the Stable Door
Locked when he came there yesterday Morning and
that the Deced for some time past had layd in the
Hay loft by Mr. Lock's Permission

Thomas Howard< no role >

Joseph Gibbins< no role > of Brewers Street Victualler on his
Oath Saith that about ten o'clock on tuesday Night
last deced came into Deponents House says he
believes Deced might Drink there about a Pant
of Beer, and left his House about a quarter before
Eleven says he saw Deced no more until about
twenty Minutes after six o clock Yesterday Morning when
Thomas Howard< no role > Lame into his House and said that
the Doctor (meaning the Deced) was Dead in the Stable,
says he immediately went into the stable and found
the Deced in the Rock there with his Head down wards
and his left hand behand him, and verily believes that
the Deced was then Dead says that about half an hour
after Nine o'Clock that Morning one of the Beadles of the




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