City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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John Kemble< no role > a Prisoner in Tothill Fields
Bridewell for the last Eight weeks on
his Oath saith, That on Monday the
Tenth Instant Thomas Tustrop< no role > the Deced
a Prisoner there was brought into the
Sick Ward complaining of a pain
in his Back across his Leynoard
afterwards of a pain in his Head
Says that the Deced told him
that some of the Prisoners in the
Ward he was in before, the Night
before, had taken his Hat and Wigg
of his Head and thrown them into
the Tub with Urine in the Ward,
Says that the Deced had his Allowance
from the Governor every [..] day and
likewise a shilling to very Necessaries
which Dept. Caught and gave to Deced
and Says that he did not hear the
Deced complain of ill treatment of
said Prison, otherwise that his
Hat & Wig being thrown into the
Urine as abovementioned

John Kemble< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

Charles Lyghsight< no role > Apothecary on
his Oath saith That he has seen the
Deced Occasionally in the Prison since he was
taken ill, and sent him Medicines
That the Deced died Yesterday
and that the cause of his Death was
a Putrid Fever

Chs. Lysight< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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