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

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and saw a Coach waiting at the Door
and in about two Minutes the Deced was
brought out of the Watch house, when Deced
appeared to be in a Fot, Says that an
Apothecary was fetched who advised them
to carry the Deced to the Workhouse , and
to put him into a Waron Bed, andpast
to rub him with Flannel upon which
the Deced was put into the Coach and
carried to the Parish Workhouse , this
Dept. the other Patrole and James Saunders< no role >
one of the Beadles going with the Deced
in the Coach, Says that, when they took
the Deced out of in Coach at the Workhouse
(being about half hour after One,) the
Deced Greaned but did not speak
Says that he assisted to carry the Deced
into the Ward there (No.9) when the
Deced appeared to be dead and Dept.
Casseles that the Deced died in a Natural
way. by the Visitation of God. there
being in Works, of violence upon the Body

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

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