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

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the Eighteenth Instant, Says that by the
violence of his Diseases Dept. thinks that
the Deceds was at times deprived of his
Senses.

Phansey Williams< no role >
[mark]
her Mark

Charles Wright< no role > of little College Street Westmr .
Surgeon on his Oath saith That on Saturday
last the Seventeenth Instant about four o' Clock
in the Afternoon Dept. was desired to go the
the House of Saml. Dangerfield< no role > the Deced in
Barton Street Westmr . Says that he went
and saw the Deced sitting in a Chair
with a Wound in his Neck about the length
of three Inches, which Deced said that he
had given himself with the Knife that lay
Bloody upon the Floor near the Deced Says
that he Sewed up the Wound and Dressed it
after which the Deced was very Calm and
quiet, Says that he saw the Deced on
Sunday Morning when he was quiet
and died that Evening in consequence
of the Wound in the throat as Dept. believes

Charles Wright< no role >

Samuel Howard< no role > of Southampton Street
Covent Garden Surgeon on his Oath saith
That he has attended the Deced for about two
Years who was affected with the Stone and
had also a Rupture and Suffered excruciating
pain wh [..] he approached to a State of
Instantly Says that the Deced was often as
a State of [..] Despendency and Dept. feared that he
might commit an Act of violence upon
himself from the pair that he endured
without hope of relief

S Howard

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




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