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Copy of Informations taken at the
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Parish of St. George Hanr. Square
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19th. day of July 1798
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touching the Death of
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Mary Lamb
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Edward Kavanagh
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House Pupil of
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St. George's Hospital
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near
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Hyde Park Corner
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on his
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Oath saith that when the Deceased was brought into the Hospital which was about
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three weeks since the Bones of her left Leg were Fractured and the Flech la
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rated
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in such manner as one of the Bones came through, the Right Leg violently
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Bruised and Wounded in two parts, she was the Whole time to two days before her
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Death in a continual Fever which is usual in such cases, and two days before
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her Death was seized with Convulsion fits, in one of which she expired on
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Sunday the 17th. of July instant about 3 o'Clock in the Morning, and he apprehended
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that the said Fever occasioned by the said Fractures Wounds and Bruises were the
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Cause of her Death, and he further saith that during the time the Deced was in the
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Hospital she was mostly in her Senses.
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Henry Beauchamp
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of the Hamlet of
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Knightsbridge
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in the parish of
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St. Margaret
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Butcher
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on his Oath saith that on Monday 27th. of June last he went
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to the Marquiss of Granby's Head at
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to drink a Pint of Beer
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and saw the Deced on the Marguiss of Granby's side of the Road going to
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cross, she had a Child in her Arms, the Dept. saw the Exeter & Plymouth
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Stage drawn by four horses coming into Town between Six & seven in
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the Evenings, saw the Offside leader Horse run full against the Woman
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and Child and pushed her down and with the force the Horses received
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a Check and seemed to stop, that the Coachman then whipped the Horses and
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made them go on, that the Dept. Saw the Off hind Wheel of the Carriage
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go over one of the Legs of the deced, that some Persons took the Deced up
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and brought her into the Marquiss of Granby's aforesaid and this Deponent
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assisted in carrying her to
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, That the Dept went the same
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Evening to look for the Coachman in
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Friday Street
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, that he appeared to be
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in Liquor, that he said he believed that Off Wheel had pushed a Woman
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down with a Child in a White frock, that the Dept. answered it was his Offside
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leader," and he then said it was, he said he turned his Head round and
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says that the Coachman behaved in an impudent manner. Dept. is informed
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the Coachman's Name is Harris.
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Dorothy Lewendon
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a
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in
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St. George's Hospital
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on her Oath says that
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she never enter'd into Conversation with the Deced relative to the manner
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in which the Accident happened neither did the Deced herself say anything
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upon that Subject to this Dept., other than that she endangered herself more by
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endeavouring to save the Child, nor this Dept. did not hear her converse with any
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other Parish about it, says the Deced was Sensible.
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