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

Informations taken this 8th. August
1763 on an Inquisition on View of
the Body of Matthew Mason< no role > lying dead
at the Parish of Saint George
Hanover Square within the Liberty
aforesaid

Judith< no role > the Wife of William Mason< no role > of piccadilly
Smith on her Oath Saith that the deced was her Son
and was about Eight years of ago last May that
about Six weeks ago her son was taken ill of a Fever
and was taken Home from School upon that Occasion
saysbut that he was not so bad as to be confined to his Bed
that last week he appeared to be better, and went out
says that East Saturday he relapsed and dept. observing
him to be very illdesadvised him to go up Stairs and lay
down on the Bed that in about half an hour's Time
he cryed out to Dept. that he had vomited that Soon
after Dept. went up Stairs and found the deced lying on
the Floor of Depts. Bed Chamber (adjourning to the Bed
Chamber where the Deced used to lay) foaming at the
Mouth and in a fit as Dept. believes Upon which Dept
called out to one Mrs Terry a Lodger in Dept. House to
come to Dept. says that she came, and Dept. went to the
Window and Called out to William Mason< no role > another son of
Dept. and likewise to Mrs. Terry's Husband who were in
a Workshop belonging to her Husband, and Mrs Terry
came and staid with her in the Room with the deced while
her son William Mason< no role > went to Mr. Battiscomb an
Apothecary in half Moon Street, to come to the deced,
Assistance, during which time the deced continued in a Fit
says that when Mr. Battiscomb came he let the Deced
Blood,andhe bled but little and Mr. Battiscomb then
declared he believed the deced was dead, and the deced never
moved afterwards. says that when the deced was very Goung
he was subject to Convulsion Fits, and always complained of
a pain in his Bowels, and his Body used to swell frequently
and particularly was so such Swelen on last Saturday that the
deced could not bear his Waistcoat buttoned. says that about
a Quarter of a Year ago her Husband Corrected the deced for
not minding his Books but she believed he did not burt the deced
nor did he complain of it, and Dept. verily believes the deced never
reced any Injury from any Correction given him, and that the deced.