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

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Image 442 of 5878th October 1787


City and Liberty
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to wit


Informations of Witnesses taken
upon Oath this 8th. Day of October 1787 . at the
Dwelling House of Mrs. Mary Thompson< no role >
known by the Sign of the Swan (No.) in the
Strand in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
in the Liberty of Westminster . Before Thomas
Prickard
< no role > Gentleman , His Majesty's Coroner for
the City and Liberty of Westminster on View of the
Body of Walter Wilson< no role > , then and there lying Dead
as follow (to wit).

Edward Wilson< no role > Nephew to the Deceased on his Oath Saith that
yesterday Morning about half an hour after Nine the Deceased
was in his back room one pair of Stairs, and the Deponent was
in the same Room at Breakfastthe Deceased said his Head
was very dizzy and he had a violent pain in it, and laid two
Hand on his HeadDeponent went out for half on hour or more
and returned again, went down into the Kitchen, and some
time after Billy one of the Deceased's Children was sent to the
Surgeon to have his Eye dressed, and when he came back the
Namely began to be Surprized thinking the Deceased had gone
with Bills to the Surgeon, but finding he had not gone, [..]
they




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