City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 403 of 7926th July 1797


Mr Thos Payne< no role > Surgeon being sworn saith
that he examd. & opened the Body of the decd. there
were nomarks out ofoutward marks of Violence but upon
minutely examining the innards parts of the
Deced he is of opinion that the Deced
was in a Consumpton his Inside being
in parts inflamed & on other parts matter was
formed he has not the most distant
Reason to believe the Deced to have received.
any thing poisonous but that he died a natural
Death that is to say of a Consumption

T Payne

Verdict
That the Deced died a
natural Death on Tuesday
Evening the 4 July 1796 of a
Consumption

He appears to have been discharged from
the Laton a Frigate by Adml. Buckner
on the 3d. July 1796 & was going to Captn
Williams Frog Lane Bristol his Mother's Brother




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