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

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he did and drank about two or three
half pints of [..] before Dinner
and part of five Pots of Beer
in Company of the Others after
Dinner and dosed or slept at
different times and at half past
ten he was in a Dose and snored
and this Deponent perceived that
his Water ran out of his Breaches
and he then awoke him when he
said he would go to bed but he
turned his Head down again upon
his Arms on the Tap Room table
that at eleven o'Clock [..] and of the
Persons who had beenwas in the
Tap Room said it was time to go
to bed whereupon this Deponent
said he must wake the deceased in
order that he might go to Bed
and accordingly he shook him
thinking to wake him but he did
not
not move whereupon the said Thomas
Lovelace [..] said he would awake
him and he lifted up his Head and
said he was a dead man upon
which this Deponent went immedi-
-ately to Mr. West Apothecary in
Mount Street who sent one of his
Assistants who came directly
who tied up his Arm with a Garter
with Intent to bleed him but he
did [..] a Vein as he said he
was past Recovery as he had
no pulsation.
Joseph Crosby< no role >
The Verdict that Lawrence James< no role >
died suddenly by the Visitation of
God to Wit of a Fit.
Charles Aldrich< no role >
Foreman




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