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Shew'd it the other patients in the Ward, and
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informed them he imagined that was the
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Instrument with which the deced had cut his
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Throat says that immediately after the House
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Surgeon Mr Underwood came and as Dept believes did his Endeavour
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to stop the wound - says that the deced lived for
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six hours afterwards and in that Interval Spoke
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at times. says by the porters desire (who was hard
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of hearing) Dept. as hed deced whether he would
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have any particular person fetcht to him, to
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which the deced replyed he did not want to see
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any person, Dept. was also desired to asked the
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deced whether he was indebted to any persons, to
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which deced answered to a great many, says
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the deceds had been a patient a Month, was always
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very pensive and melancholy and unwilling to
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give an Answer to any Body.
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Thos. Dover
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Eleanor Brickwell
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nurse belonging to
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the said Ward on her Oath Saith that the deced
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was a patient under Deptr. Inspection & Care for
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near a Month and was under a Salivation, and last
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Thursday desired Dept. to tell Mr. Bromfield that
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he did not choose to be any longer in the Salivation
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and friday Evening he was washed out says at ten
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that night Dept. left him, in order for the night
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nurse to attend him says he appeared to Dept. during
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her Attendances to be Sensible says she saw no
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more of him 'tell after the deced had cut his Throat.
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The of Mark
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Eleanor Brickwell
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William Mc. Gregor
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one of the porters belonging to
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the said Hospital or his Oath Saith that he hath
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known the deced about five Months says the deced
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about Nine Weeks ago informed Dept. that he had
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been afflicted with the Foul Distemper about
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two years and that he had been thro' a Course of
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Salivation in the Lock Hospital, and says Dept. came
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St. George's Hospital
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for a Complaint in his Head
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and was a patient under Dr. Warren & Mr. Bromfield
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and was order'd to go thro' a Salivation there, to which
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he was very unwilling to agree, but consented at
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last, says the reason he gave was that he dispaired
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of a Cure; for which Dept. desired his reasons, to
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which he replyed that he was disappointed of a
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place which some Gentleman had Promised him
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three or four Years ago.- says that about three
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Weeks before the deced became an Inpatient Dept
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not the deced, and Dept. asked him if he had been
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at the Hospital that day, to which he answered
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he had and did not expect a Cure; that he was
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more ready to make away with himself then
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any thing else, and appeared to Deponent to be
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very Melancholy & dejected.
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William Mc Grigor
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Roderick Mc Rinnon
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Servant
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to Mr. Dampier
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belonging to the said Hospital on his
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Oath Saith that about 8 o'Clock last Saturday
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Morning as Dept was carrying Some Medicines to
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the other patients the deced called to him by name,
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and told Dept. that they (meaning as Dept. understood
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the patients in the Ward) had frightened him that
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Morning, that he thought to go to sleep, that they
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told him Fielding was after him, and asked Dept
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if he had seen him, to which Dept. replyed that he
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had better think of his maker at that time, to
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which he said that's had, God grant it. says the
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deced was a sharger to Dept.
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Michael underwood
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of the said
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Hospital on his Oath saith that about half an hour after five
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last Saturday Morning he was fetched by the
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night nurse to Richmond Ward to a patient who
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had at his Throat there, says he went and found
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Us deced in his Bed with his Throat cut and bleeding
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