City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledged on the behalf
of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
the Death of Mary Bright< no role > at the Dwelling House of
Charles Savory< no role > known by the Sign of the Falcon
in the Parish of Saint Anne Soho in the City and
Liberty aforesaid on the twenty second Day of November
in the thirty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign house [..]
King George the Third, before Anthony Gell< no role > his
Majesty's Coroner for the said City and Liberty on
an Inquisition then and there taken on view of the
Body of the said Mary Bright< no role > then and there
lying dead a follow to Wit.

Mr. John Bolton< no role > Surgeon of Lichfield Street being
sworn saith that he examined the Body of the said Mary
Bright
< no role > yesterday the twenty first day of November 1792, that
there was Bruises on her right Jaw, and also on her [..]
and Arms, but that the said John Bolton< no role > doth not
consider that these Bruises could have been the
Cause of the Death of the said Mary Bright< no role > independent
of any Disorder with which she might have been afflicted
the Deceased Mary Bright< no role > appeared to have been in
a dropsical state for a considerable Length of Time of
which Disease this Deponent is of Opinion the said
Mary Bright< no role > must shortly have died, though
it is probable [..] the Bruises which appear on her Body,
may have hastened her Death. At the same time
This Deponent does not believe that the Bruise which
the said Mary Bright< no role > appears to have received, would




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