City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Dranged, that when the Master of this Deponent
went to call the Deceased in the Evening he found the
Deceased extremely ill and in a dying State as this Deponent is informed

James Jenkins< no role >

John Barker< no role > of No.118 High Holborn in the County
of Middlsex Victualler being Sworn Deposeth and
saith that he has known the Deceased for upwards of
these Years last with whom this Deponent had lived
as a servant that since the Deponent left the service
of the Deceased he used frequently to call on this Deponent
at his House in Holborn that onThursdayFriday Morning
last about Nine o Clock the Deceased called on this
Deponent and wished very much to go to bed as he said
he was very much hurt and if he was to go home Freshd.
only disturb Mr. Day therefore Wished to have a Bed
out of the House this Deponent offered a Bed in his
House but while it was preparing the Deceased took
his Hat and says he wod. not trouble him that he knows [..]
Stairs in Covent Garden and Would go there but on
coming there not being Accommodated they went to
the Old Hummums where he got one this Deponent
untied his Show and pulled off his Coat and then
left him that the reason given by the Deceased for
going to Bed was that he had very little rest the
Night before and when he came to this Hummum

he desired this Deponent to say he was come off a long
Journey, This Deponent saith he Frequently Copied
Littus for the Deceased that about a week ago this
Deponent Copied a Litter for the Deceased which
surprized this Deponent very much being so very
much unlike his former Reductions which [..] were
always well indicated & Properly spell but the Present
[..] was so very incop [..] & badly spell that this
Deponent could hardly make it out, that out his
Deponent making an observation on the Subject
he said to the Deponent that he was a last Man but
would write the next better, That for this week
past this Deponent his observed a very great alternat [..]
in the Conduct of the Deceased as the frequently appeared
flightly and when he entered upon a subject he
never finished it Co [..] that on Friday last
the appeared particularly so and seemed very much
hurt at having his Coachs taken from him which
this Deponent understood to be this being taken for
him under a Cousin joiner of Bankrupt against
him which appeared in the gasette on the saturday
preceding, And this Deponent saith that from [..]
general observations of the Conduct of the Deceased
for some Days last that if this Geadent had not
taken place and this Deponent had been called upon
in a Court of Justice to & we his Evidence on the State
of the Deceased, mind he would have declared the [..]




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