City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1767 - 30th December 1767

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John Glassbrook< no role > of Sturton Ground Westmr . Carpenter
on his Oath saith, That last night a [..] before Eight o'Clock he was coming along the
Read towards the Turnpike at Pimlico, when he met
the Deced Galloping on a small Brown Horse or More
Says that he passed by this Depr. about one hundred Yards
when Dept. saw the Deced fall down from the Horse
upon which he went to Deced and found him lying
in the Road on his Barke Speechless, Says that he was
carried to the Sign of the Blackmoor's Head where
he was bled by Mr North the Surgeon who advised
the Deced's being sent to the Hospital, Says that
the Deced was carried to the Westmr. Hospital in
the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster , where he
was put into Bad. Says that the Horse on which
the Deced was riding was very near to an upright poor
on the right hand side of the Road but Dept. cannot say
whether the Deced's Leg or Foot shuck against the Post
or not.

John Glazebrook< no role >

Samuel Jones< no role > Pupil to Mr. Humphreys one of the
Surgeons to the Westmr. Hospital on his Oath saith, That
last Night between Eight & Nine o'Clock the Deced was
brought to said Hospital as an Accident, Says that he
Examined the Deced and found a Swelling above the
right Ear, and a little grazing of the skin on the back
part of his Head, the Deced being insensible, Says
that Mr. Pyle soon after ordered what he thought
necessary to be done, and Dept. staid with Deced in the
Hospital until near Twelve o'Clock during which
time he continued in the same State of Insensibility,
and died about three o'Clock this Morning as this
Dept. was informed, And this Dept. says that he believes
the Deced's Deatls was caused by the hurt he reced in
his Head, and in is of Opinion that it is a Concussion of
the Brain

Samuel Jones< no role >

John Palmer< no role > of Staples Inn Gentleman on his Oath
saith, that he believes the small dark brown Horse on
which the Deced was riding last Night at Pimlico , [..]
from which he fell, was the Property of Mr. John Foster< no role >
the Deceased.

John Palmer< no role >

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




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