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

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Image 292 of 55818th July 1776


half an hour after six o' Clock in the Evening, after he had some
Beer & way a little Cool he then complained that one of his Arms
was a little staff, Deponent Says the Deced had wished but
about a Neck, and complained of a Cough and not being very
well and said he beleived he had got Cold the Day he first
Come, that he was March in Liquir and had slept on the
Ground.

William Pitcher< no role > of Rowe Fear Low and to Mr. Clockdale on
his Oath saith that he was in a Barn in the Feild,and
but did not see the Accident, and he saw the Deced in the
Afternoon and observed him to have a Black Eye, and Dept.
afac'd the reason, and he said he had hurt himself by
Jumping out of the Cart, he was then loading the Cart, says
he brought the Deced to Westmr. Hospital on Sunday, on
Horsebacks.

[..] July 1776.

Informations of Witness
touching the Death of William
Smith
< no role > lying Dead in the Parish
of St. Margaret in the City of
Westminster




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