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<p n="404"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n404-1">William Saunders</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo298">Jefferies Square</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ165">Doctor in Physick</rs>
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maketh Oath and saith that on<lb></lb>
Sunday last the 8th. day of March inst. in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
this Dept. was sent for to attend the deced at his Dwelling<lb></lb>
House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15089_geo299">Cannon Street</rs>
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and that as soon as Dept.<lb></lb>
arrived there he found that the deced had been wounded<lb></lb>
in the Head immediately on which Dept. desired that<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ166">Surgeon</rs>
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shod. be called and accordingly Mr. Lucas<lb></lb>
one of the Surgeons belonging to Guy's Hospital was<lb></lb>
instantly sent for and came, but before he came the<lb></lb>
deced informed this Dept. that he had been invited to a<lb></lb>
private Room in the King's Arms Tavern in Cornhill<lb></lb>
by a Relation who put a Question to the deced, which<lb></lb>
was not answered to the Satisfaction of the Relation<lb></lb>
upon which the Relation produced two Pistols<del>which</del>
<lb></lb>
and desired the deced to take one which the deced<lb></lb>
refused to do, that the Relation then produced to violent<lb></lb>
means by blows to which the deced attributed his<lb></lb>
Indisposition<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
That Dept. and Mr. Lucas thought it<lb></lb>
necessary to bleed the deced and they directed such other<lb></lb>
Medines as they thought proper, and Dept. upon<lb></lb>
Inquiry was informed that the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
had been long<lb></lb>
addicted to drinking from which he had been subject<lb></lb>
to various complaints such as violent Vomitings,<lb></lb>
tremblings on his newes and was accosionally<lb></lb>
delirious, Slymptons simular to these appeared on<lb></lb>
the deced since the Blows given which rendred it<lb></lb>
not<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
improbable that these Symptons went in<lb></lb>
a great measure connected with his former<lb></lb>
Complaints, however to became more delirious them<lb></lb>
usual and more alarming Symptoms appeared, his<lb></lb>
Pulse failing him, cold Sweat came on and he died<lb></lb>
after Dept. had daily visited him from the sd. Sunday to<lb></lb>
Tuesday last the 10th inst.<del>9</del>
when he died. Says he believes<lb></lb>
that the former bad state of Health of the deced quat<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
contributed to under the Wounds, and B<obscured></obscured>
mental.</p>
<p n="405">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15089_date28">13th. day of March 1778</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="406"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n406-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15089_occ167">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="407"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15089_n407-1">William Saunders</rs>
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