City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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"put their Hands into his Breeches Pockets, that he Deced
"then said to the Chairman that he did not understand that
"and with his Hand put them by whereupon the Chairmen
"knocked him down and beat him about his Louis when he
"was down, that he (the Deced) crawled upon his Hands
"and Knees around the Corner and knocked at Weatherby
"Door in Russell Street, that the Chairmen followed him
"and knocked him down backwards, and that he then
"reced a Kick form one of them near his private parts between
"his Thighs, which gave him great pain, That he (the Deced
"then walked to Newington and went to Bed there where he
"lay till four o'Clock in the afternoon that he stard there
"some time longer and then came home to Deponent, where
"he complained of very great pain underneath his private parts, and
"a difficulty of making Water & in going to [..] Says that the Deced could hardly
sit down, and that he grew worse until the Twenty second
Day of January when he was Omitted an inpatient at the
Westminster Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret , Says
that she saw Deced several times at the Hospital, that he
always complained of a great pair in his Bladder, but
that she thought him sometimes Delicious, and that the
Deced died at said Hospital yesterday Evening, and
believes that the hurt which Deced reced from the
Chairman abovementioned was the cause of his Death

Elizabeth Howard< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day Year
and Place abovementioned, before me
Tho. Prichard< no role > Coroner .}




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