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

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Robert
Dr Smith
< no role > Surgeon Phisician at Chelsea
being sworn saith, that, he was walking in
Compg with colonel Chalmanand the gentlemenon wednesday
last when he saw the Deced apparently in Company
with another woman that the Deceased
appeared to have made a little stumble
and fell to the ground this Deponent
however immediately ran to her assistance and
ordered such applications as was necessary
in this Case, but without Effect, this
Deponent is of Opinion that the Deced
was suddenly seized with an Apoplectic
Fit, & which was the Cause of her
Death

VerdictR [..]
that Mary Hughes< no role > died by the visitation
of God in a natural way to wit of
an apoplectic Fit.

Thomas Sumpter< no role > foreman




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