City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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and as he was going up the Stairs
to the waiting come where he always
used to go to write Letters this Depont.
heard an uncommon great Noise
like something falling down
upon which this Deponent ran
up the Stairs which he found the
deceased lying motion less upon the
Stairs and he immediately called some
other persons to him who assisted in
conveying the deceased from thence
into the Board Room waiting Room
and Mr. Grant an apothecary was
immediately sent for who came
and opened a Vein in his Right
but no blood issued forth and Mr.
Grant then declared that he was
past all recovery and that he died
in a fit

Robert Garraway< no role >

The Verdict sudden death by the Visitation
of God, to wit in a Fit

Francis Bignell< no role >
Foreman




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