City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1796 - 28th December 1796

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Deponent & his Companion went to the Watch-
house and informed the Constable of the Night
with the accident who took down their
Address and then the Constable of the house
came with then to Mr. Longdale's where they
saw the deceased laid upon the Floorandand then
appeared to be quite dead and since that time they
have heard that thedeaddeceased had [..]
and deranged in his Mind by a Feanor

John North< no role >

Saml. Crisp< no role > Constable of the Night being
sworn depend and [..] the chief
of the above Evidence and further deposed
that he went up their into the [..]
the deced used to sleep and found the such Window
fastned down with a Fork back had it not
been so the deceased who was a very
Gross Corpulent man could not have
thrown himself cut of that window as it
was too small for him to pass thro' and
then

then he and another Constable and a Watch-
maker who occupies the 2d. Floor went
out at a Trap Door on the Top of the
House where the Watch maker found
the Shirt of the deceased and this Depont
also found a Pricer of Flannel there &
this Deponent has no Doubt but that the
deceased threw himself from off the Top of
the House into the Street.

This Deponent further sayeth that
Dr. Cooper had opend a Vein in the
Arm of the deced but to no purpose
that the sd. Dr. Cooper had [..] the
deceased for some time before the Reci-
dent on Account of his being very
unwill

Saml. Crisp< no role >

The Verdict That Robert Benson< no role > This name instance is in set 1667. being [..] with
a Delirium of the Brain threw himself from off the
Top of Mr. Longdales House into the Street which was the
Cause of his death

Matthew Rochfort< no role > Foreman




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