City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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Image 387 of 50522nd September 1764


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


Informations of Witnesses taken this
Twenty saecond day of September 1764 at the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex ,
on an Inquisition taken on View of the Body
of Richard Underwood< no role > , lying Dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Henry Watson< no role > of Rathbone Place Surgeon on his
Oath saith that about six weeks since he was desired
to come to Richard Underwood< no role > the Deced says that he came to the Deced,
and found his right Arm violently swelled and broke, and
the right shoulder appeared to be dislocated, Says that
he attended the Deced from that time to the time of
his Death which happened on Tuesday last in the
Afternoon, Says that for three or four days before
his Death the Deced complained of a pain in his
Breast and difficulty in Breathing the Deced having been subject to an Asth [..] for some hair post in his says that
the Deced was so well about a week before he died,
that he went abroad, and catched a Cold, which
Say, attended with a Fever Says that the Cold and
So that he spit [..] a great qualitity of Matter which oppegrad
Fever effected the Deceds Lungs, and caused the
to be the cause of the
Deced's Death, but Depondt. cannot say whether his
Death was originally caused by a fall which Deced
reced from a Horne on the day before the Deponent
first visited him of which the Deced informed
Deponent.

Henry Watson< no role >




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