City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1791 - 31st December 1791

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City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }


Informations taken this
fourteenth day of October 1791
at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square , within the
Liberty of Westminster in the
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Thomas
Spiller
< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Robert Brooks< no role > a Bricklayers Labour
on his Oath saith That he was at work
yesterday between Eleven and Twelve o'Clock
the Deced was coming along in Bruton
Mews in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square and had a Pair of Boots in his
Hand, that he called to Dept. desiring
him to assist him being much troubled
with Fits Says that he [..] hold of the
Deced who was not able to speak
but leaned upon a Post and Dept. laid
him down upon the Ground and Deced
died in about Seven Minutes. Says
that a Surgeon was fetched who said
that the Deced was dead, Says that
he observed no Marks of violence
upon the Deced and believes that the
Deced died a natural Death.

Robert Brooks< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

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




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