City & Liberty of
Westmr in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Twenty ninth
day of December 1768 at the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty of Westmr . in
the County of Middlesex on an Inquistition touching
the Death of Andrew Thomas< no role > lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty and County.

John Hodges< no role > House Surgeon at St. George's Hospital
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square on his Oath
saith That Andrew Thomas< no role > the Deced was brought to said
Hospital as an Accident on Thursday the Eighth day of
this instant Decr. between ten & Eleven o'Clock in the
forenoon when he appeared to Dept. to be in Liquor
Says that he Examined the Deced and found a superficial
Wound on the left side of his Head and the parts around
the wound much Bruised, Says that he Enquired
how Deced reced the Wound and was told by some People
that came with Deced to the Hospital thatit was by
a fall down an Area, That the Deced was not
sensible when he was brought to said Hospital, but was
Sensible The next Morning, and then complained of
a pain in his Arm, but had no apparent Hurt or Brui [..]
any where but on the Head, Says that Deced continued
to be Sensible for three or four Days, and then grew
delirious, and died in said Hospital on or about the
Seventeenth day of the same Month, Says that he
opened the Deced's Head on Monday the 19th. and found
a large Quantity of matter between the Sealp and the
Pericranium, under the Wound, and around it, and
a pretty large Quantity of extravasated Blood upon the Brain
in the back part of the Head, and says that the
Extravasation of the Blood was alone sufficient to
cause the Deced's Death, which Extravasation was caused by the
Shock or Concussion that the Head received, And
says that during the time Deced was in his Senses in
said Hospital he did not complain of having reced