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maketh Oath and saith that on
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Sunday last the 8th. day of March inst. in the Afternoon
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this Dept. was sent for to attend the deced at his Dwelling
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House in
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and that as soon as Dept.
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arrived there he found that the deced had been wounded
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in the Head immediately on which Dept. desired that
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Surgeon
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shod. be called and accordingly Mr. Lucas
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one of the Surgeons belonging to Guy's Hospital was
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instantly sent for and came, but before he came the
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deced informed this Dept. that he had been invited to a
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private Room in the King's Arms Tavern in Cornhill
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by a Relation who put a Question to the deced, which
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was not answered to the Satisfaction of the Relation
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upon which the Relation produced two Pistols
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which
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and desired the deced to take one which the deced
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refused to do, that the Relation then produced to violent
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means by blows to which the deced attributed his
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Indisposition
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That Dept. and Mr. Lucas thought it
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necessary to bleed the deced and they directed such other
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Medines as they thought proper, and Dept. upon
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Inquiry was informed that the deced
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had been long
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addicted to drinking from which he had been subject
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to various complaints such as violent Vomitings,
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tremblings on his newes and was accosionally
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delirious, Slymptons simular to these appeared on
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the deced since the Blows given which rendred it
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not
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improbable that these Symptons went in
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a great measure connected with his former
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Complaints, however to became more delirious them
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usual and more alarming Symptoms appeared, his
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Pulse failing him, cold Sweat came on and he died
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after Dept. had daily visited him from the sd. Sunday to
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Tuesday last the 10th inst.
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when he died. Says he believes
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that the former bad state of Health of the deced quat
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contributed to under the Wounds, and B
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mental.
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Sworn the
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13th. day of March 1778
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