City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 172 of 70618th March 1784


City and Liberty
of Westminster }
to wit


Informations of Witness taken
upon oath this 18th. day of March 1784
at the Dwelling House of Mr. William Woods< no role >
the Sign of the Crown in Petty France in
the Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster
Before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman
His Majesty's Coroner for the City and
Liberty of Westminster , on View of the
Body of a Woman, name unknown, lying Dead

John Winslow Mayd< no role > House Surgeon to Westminster Hospital
on his Oath saith that the Deceased was brought to Westmr. Hospl.
on Sunday Night last between 10 & 11 o'Clock by two of the Gren [..]
Guards, said she was found in the Street opposite the Horse Guards
and imagined she had been knocked down by some Carriage or
other-Deponent Examined the Deceased, she was bleeding exceedingly
there was a large Tumour of Blood on the right and upper part of
the Head, the deceased was insensible, muttered a few words but
very inconsistently-Deponent make a large in seision on the
Tumour in order to discover the nature of the Injury whether there
was a Fracture or depression, Neither of which were found, it was
then




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