City & Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Midsex}
Informations taken this Fifteenth day
of May 1771
at the Parish of St. Martin in the fields
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex
upon an Inqusition touching the death of
Mark
Aldersey< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County
Richard Huck< no role >
of Spring Gardens
Doctor of Physick
on his Oath saith That on Friday Night last about
Eleven o'Clock Dept. was desired to came to the Deced whom
he foudnd in great pain in his Belly and having then a violent
Purging, says that the
[..] Dept. Could feel no Pulse of he
and after repeatedly asking him if he know any cauce
of there Complaints Deced Acknowledged that he had
taken half an Ounce of Sublimate that Morning
which he bought of a Chymist
. Says that Sublimate
is of a Poisonous Quality, that he recommended
Proper things for the Deced which he refused to take,
for sometime, but at last submitted to three Glystes
as Dept. was informed. And Dept. says that he
believes the Poison which the Deced took was
the Came of his Death.
Rd. Huck< no role >
Sarah Tatham< no role >
Servant
to Mr. William Howell< no role >
at the Sign of the Red Lyon in Cock spur Street in
the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
on her Oath saith
That on Friday last (May 10.) between ten & Eleven
o'Clock in the forenoon Dept. being in her Worster's