City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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31st January 1782 - 22nd December 1782

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Image 244 of 51027th June 1782


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

Informations taken this Twenty seventh
day of June 1782 at the Parish of St Margaret
within the liberty of Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex on an Inquisition touching
the Death of Edward Webster< no role > lying dead in
the said Parish Liberty and County.

James Lane< no role > Surgeon at the Westminster Hospital
in the Parish of St. Margaret on his Oath South
That on the Twenty second day of May last
Edward Webster< no role > came to said Hospital as our
accident having a very large Wound on the
leftside of his Head and the Skull bare
Says that all proper care was taken of
Deced in the Hospital, Says that he went
on well, and Dept had hopes of his Recovering
until about Ten days ago, where bad
Symptoms appeared, that the Deced grew
Worse and died about One o'clock Yesterday
morning, says that he opened the Head this
day and found some coagulated blood in the
right Ventricle of the Brain and a Coronory
to a supperation of the whole substance,
which he believes to be the comes of the
Deced' was death, says that the Day on Which
the Deced was reced into the Hospital the said
in Depot hearing that he was unloading a
Cart with Grass and that he fall of the Cart
merely by accident and reced the Wound
upon the Head

Jas Lane

Mary Hall< no role > Servant to John Unthank< no role > of
Rochester Row in the Parish of St John the
Evangelist Westmr. Cow Keeper on her Oath saith
that on the Twenty second day of May last Edward
Webster the deced was servant to Mr Unthank
and that saith those drove a Dead of Grass into Mr. Unthanks Yard
(which Yard id Paved with shore) that the Deced was




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