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

Informations taken this Sixteenth day
of September 1780 at the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Middlesex upon an
Inquisition touching the death of John
Fotherby< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Thomas Williams< no role > late Servant to John Fotherby< no role >
Esqr. deceased, on his Oath saith that he has
lived with the Deced about Seven Years
last past in George Street York Buildings
in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within
the Liberty of Westmr. Says that he was hired
to take care of the Deced, who was very after
ill [..] ing a stoppage of Urine and Framntly not
able to make water without the Assistance
of a Surgeon Says that the Deced was
Seized with a shivering Fit at Church
last Sunday the Tenth of this Instant Septr.
and Mr. Wainwright the Apothecary was
fetched that Afternoon, and Sir Richard
Tibb< no role > came the next Morning, and then
Mr. Bromfield the Surgeon came, who
drew about three Bints of Bloody Water
from the Deced, the Deced not being able
to make any Water himself, Says that
the Deced continued ill on Monday grew
worse on Tuesday and Wednesday, and
died between five and six o'Clock on
Thursday Morning the fourteenth Instant
and Dept. says that the Deced died a Natural Death
and that he reced no Injury from any
Person whatever. And Dept. says that the
Deced on Sunday last desired he would not
be alarmed, that he was not going to die