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<p n="1590"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1221">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1222">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65211_date329">Sixteenth day of<lb></lb>
September 1771</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1223">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1224">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1590-1">Mary<lb></lb>
Spires</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County</p>
<p n="1591"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1591-1">John Cartwright Dickinson</rs>
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House <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65211_occ397">Surgeon</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65211_geo1225">St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That on the 26th. day of August last<lb></lb>
between the Hours of Ten and Eleven in the Evening<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1591-3">Mary Spires</rs>
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the Deced was brought to said Hospital<lb></lb>
with a Contused Wound on the Right side of her Head<lb></lb>
about one Inch in Length the Bone being Bare, says<lb></lb>
that upon Examination he found no Fracture nor Bring<lb></lb>
on the Bone, says that the Deced went on very well<lb></lb>
for several days without any bad Symptoms, That she<lb></lb>
afterwards began to be Feverish and low, and notwithstanding<lb></lb>
all possible care was taken of her, a Diarehea seized her<lb></lb>
on the Ninth day of this Instant September,which was<lb></lb>
succeeded the next Morning by a Shivering Fit, the<lb></lb>
Diarehea was relieved but she Continued gradually Sinking<lb></lb>
until the thirteenth Instant when she died in said Hospital<lb></lb>
Says that the Body of the Deced was afterwards opened in<lb></lb>
said Hospital and was Examined by Mr. Pyle one of the<lb></lb>
Surgeons of said Hospital (whose patient the Deced had been)<lb></lb>
And this Dept. says that Mr. Pyle gave him this day a<lb></lb>
Letter which he desired this Dept. to deliver to the Coroner<lb></lb>
and Jury of which the following is a true Copy<lb></lb>
Gentleman</p>
<p n="1592">"Not being able to attend you myself in<lb></lb>
"Person I take the Liberty to state to yor the Case of the<lb></lb>
"deceased <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65211_n1592-1">Mary Spires</rs>
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, on whose Account you are now<lb></lb>
"called together. She was brought into the Hospital the<lb></lb>
"26th. of August having received a contused wound on the Head<lb></lb>
"the Skull was bare, but there was no Fracture neither<lb></lb>
"had she any bad Symptoms, and she continued without<lb></lb>
any</p>
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