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

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at Night and frequently lay in his Cloths.
Nicholas Jersey< no role >

Ann Jersey< no role > wife of Nicholas Jersey< no role > on her Oath
saith, That she saw the Deced sitting on the side of his
Bed about ten o'Clock on Tuesday Night last, says that
on asking him how he did, he answered that he was
something better, and would not let this Dept. moke
his Bed, Says that she heard the Deced walk about
his Room yesterday morning about four o' Clock, that
she thought him to be in Tats, and that he afterwards
vomitted very much, Says that the Deced had been
ill for about three weeks past, and greatly
complained of the Dry Gripes, particularly of late.

The Mark of
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Ann Jersey< no role >

Ann Doddington< no role > on her Oath saith, That she has
attended the Deced who has been ill for two Months
last past, of a violent pain in his Bowells, says
that he was so ill that he could not lye down in Bed
says that he has been ill of late and on Tuesday
Night last Deced looked very old and Sulky, and
did not care to Speak to her
The Mark of
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Ann Doddington< no role >

Elizabeth Doddington< no role > Sister to the Deced on her oath
saith, That the Deced had been ill for some time,
and that she thought his behaviour of tale different
from what it used to me, Says that she found a
Letter in the Deced's Room yesterday, directed to her
which she has since burnt, Elizabeth Dodding [..]

John Doddington< no role > of High Street Bloomsbury Carver
& Gilder on his Oath saith, That his Brother to the
Deced, and had after assisted him with Money,
That he saw the Deced but Seldom, but when he last
saw the Deced which was last Saturday senight they
drank two Pints of Beer together, but that the Deced
said very little and did not care to speak to Dept.
& Dept. believes thot Deced was at times Disordered
in his senses.

John Doddington< no role >

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




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