City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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11th January 1776 - 30th December 1776

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Image 52 of 55831st January 1776


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

Informations taken this Thirty first
day of January 1776 at the Parish of St.
Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex upon an
Inquisition touching the death of William
Stubbs
< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

William Jefferys< no role > House Surgeon at the Westmr
Hospital in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr
on his Oath saith, that on Wednesday 17th. Jany Inst
William Stubbs< no role > was brought to said Hospital as on
Accident having a large Lacorated Wound on his
Right Leg, which was Dressed and proper care
taken of Deced there, but a Delirium came on
the [..] Nineteeth which continued at times until
about four Days of his Death which happened
last Monday afternoon 29th. January between
three and four o'Clock, and Dept. believes that
the Deced's Death was caused by the Wound
above mentioned.

William Jeffries< no role >

John Gentleman< no role > of Perkins Rents in the
Parish of St. John the Evangelist Westmr. Butcher
on his Oath saith That on the 17th. Instant Dept.
was driving his Cart drawn by two Horses in Fleet
Street . Says that a Cart loaded with Coals and Drawn
by four or five Horses was drove by a Man there
the same way and by the side of Dept. Cart Says that
William Stubbs< no role > the Deced was walking by the side
of Depts. Horses on the side next the Coal Cart, That
his feet slipped and he fell down between the Carts
and rolled towards the Coal Cart when the off wheel
of the Coal Cart passed upon the Right Leg of the Deced
and wounded it, Says that he cryed out and the




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