City & Liberty
of Westmr.
in the
County of Midsex
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Informations taken this this fourteenth day
of March 1791 at the Parish of St. Margaret
Westminster
in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the
death of
Nicholas Shay< no role >
a Prisoner
in Tothill Fields Bridewell
in the
said Parish Liberty and County
John Bemond< no role >
a Prisoner
on Tohill Fields
Bridewell
on his Oath saith that he has
been upwards of three months, here that
Nicholas Shay< no role >
the Deced
was brought
a Prisoner
there about the Eighteenth
day of January last, being then very
ill and was immediately put into
the Sick Ward where he continued
ever since having a violent Fever
Says that the Deced was attended by
Mr. Hanbury who sent him Medicine
which Deced took Says that the
Deced had the Allowance of the Prisoner
every day and that the Governor
gave him Money to buy Nourishing
thing which this Dept. laid out
for the Deced, as he attends the
Prisoners in the Sick Ward, Says
that the Deced was not ill used in
the Prison, but the Deced died this
this Morning about One o'Clock
and Dept. says that Deced died
Natural Death of the Fever
Sworn the Day Year
& Place abovementioned
before me
Tho Prickard< no role >
Coror
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John Bemon< no role >
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