City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1770 - 26th December 1770

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told him before he (the Deced) went to Bed the Evening before
You ment not expect to find me alive in the Morning but
that Deced had said so several times before made the Father
not regard it. And says that the Deced had a Cold and Whe [..]
that he lay in Bed two days last week and was very Melancholy
and low Spirited, That he appeared on Tuesday Night to be
disturbed in Mind and dejected.

Martha Smith< no role >

Andrew Hume< no role > of York Street St. James Surgeon on his
Oath saith That he this day Expended the Body of the Deced
and on Examination it found the Lungs destroyed, Has no
Reason to think that the Deced was Poisoned, but believes
that he died a natural Death.

severally Sworn the Day
Year and Place above
Mentioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}

And: Hume< no role >
Sworn & in York Street
St. James Square




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