City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 268 of 7663rd May 1789


City & Liberty
Westmr in the
County of Midsex }

Information taken this fourth day of
May 1789 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty
of Westmr in the County of Middlsex upon
an Inquisition touching the Death in the
said Parish Liberty and county

John Harrison< no role > of Mount Street in the Parish
of St. George Hanover Square Surgeon on his
Oath saith That be this Day Examined the Body
of William Richards< no role > he Deced and found the Symptoms
of Extravasauim over the whole head which was
the Ocassion of Deced's Doath

John Harrion< no role >

Margaret James< no role > Servant to william
Richards
< no role > of Mount Street in the Parish of St
George Hanover Square on her Oath saith
That she has lived upwards of a Year with
Mr. Richards, That the Deced was Subject
to Fits and that in that time he had fits
three Deferent times That he had three
different fits last Saturday, in the first
fist Deced fall upon the Kitchen Stair
in the Second he fell upon the Kitchen
Floor and Dept saw bload upon the Kitchen
says that the Blood came from his Mouth
nose upper Lip. and a Small Wound between
his Eyes. Says that Mr. Blackett the Apothecary
was fetched who sent a Noint which Deced
took, Says that the Deced went to Bed
between Ten and Eleven o'Clock, Says that
Mr. Rihard's Parter, and a Boy Slept in
another Bad in the same Room, with Deced
Says that on Sunday Morning, between
Seven & Eight 10 Clock the Third Instant Dept
saw the Deced lying upon the Landing Place
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