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

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William Fordyce< no role > of Queen Street in the parish of St . James
Westmr. Surgeon on his Oath saith that he is Surgoen to
the third Regiement od Foot Guards and that he was told by st lodger
yesterday afternoon that a Soldier of the said Reigment
lay in the same street Omitting Blood, and was thought
to be dying,says that the went to Deced and found him
to be dying, having no Pulse, and much Blood on the
ground by Deced, and likewise some Blood in his Mouth
says that the Deced died very soon after, and believes that
his Death was owing to a Rupture of one or more Vessels in
the Lungs

Willm Fordyce< no role > Surgeon to the
third Regt of foot Guards

Severally Sworn the Day Year
Place above mentioned before me
Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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