City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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Image 455 of 6489th September 1771


City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }


Informations taken this Ninth day of
September 1771 at the Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex
upon an Inquisition touching the Death of William
Norman
< no role > lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County

John Cartwright Dickinson< no role > House Surgeon at the
Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of St, Margaret Westmr .
on his Oath saith That on the 31st of Augt, last in the
Afternoon the Deced was brought to said Hospital
with a continued wound upon his Temple and a very
bad compound Fracture upon his right Thight, says
that he grew daily weaker, the parts Mortfied, and
notwithstanding every Remedy used to save his
he did Yesterday Morning (Sepr. 8) in said Hospital
and says that his Death was Caused by the Wound
and Fractured abovementioned

P. Dickinson

Richard Paine< no role > Coachman to the Revd Dr. Wilson
on his Oath saith That on Saturday Augt. 31 this
Dept. was in Mr. William Jones< no role > 's Stable Yard in
Soldiers Yard Westmr. When William Norman< no role > the
Deced was at Work upon a Wooden Shed in said
Stable Yard, says that the Shed upon which he
worked fell down, upon the deced in the Yard
says that the Deced thereby had his right Thing
broke and reced a Wound on the [..]
side of his Head, says that the Deced was sent
to the Westmr. Hospital says that there was no
person upon the Shed with the Deced at the time
in which he fell

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

Richard Paine< no role >




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