City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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Image 633 of 80520th October 1788


City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex

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Informations taken this Twentieth
day of October, 1788 at the Parish of St.
Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Midsex upon an Inqisition
touching the death of William Tomlin< no role >
a Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell
then and there lying dead.

Samuel Hanbury< no role > of King Street Westmr .
Apothecary & Surgeon , on his Oath saith
That about fortnight ago the Deced was
Seized in the Person with an Epileptic
Fit That the Deced was relieved and was
carried to the Sick Ward, and appeared
to be getting better and was so well
last Saturday that Dept. thought him well
enough to be carried to the Guild hall , and
Dept. was surprized to heard that he died
that Morning in the Necessary of the Person
and Dept. says that the Deced died a
Natural Death.

Saml Hanbury< no role > Surg

James Bailey< no role > a Prisoner in Tothill Fields
Bridgewell on his Oath saith That he has
been there about nine Weeks that
William Towlin< no role > was there before, and
appeared to be well in heath, That
on Thursday the Ninth Instant the Deced
was Seized with a Fit, and on Friday
the 17th. Deced was Seized with a Second
Fit, and on Saturday the Eighteenth
Instant the Deced upon the Necessary had




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