City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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Image 574 of 80523rd September 1788


Liquor but was very chearful and merryDeponent h [..]
nothing of him during the NightDeponent went the next
Morning up to the Deceaseds Room to call him as usual
when he opened the Door he found him in Bed on his Back
with his left Knee lifted up, with no Bed Clothes on
the Deponent said Sir You lay the Modd posture and then
immediately threw the Bed Clothes ever him, then took him
by his right hand to wake him, and found him quite Cold
and Dead, Deponent directlysaidsent for Mr. Michalson a
Surgeon who came and saw him, and said he had been Dead
some Hours Deponent acquainted the Prisoners, in the
adjoining Room immediately who got up and come into the
Deceased Roomthe Deceased had drank a Bottle of Water
up during the Night, and Deponent did not see any marks
of violence whatsoever about the Body of the Deceased, and
Deponent is of opinion that the Deceased Died a Natural Death.

Hugh Farley< no role >

[..] Pryce late the Wife of Edward Layer< no role > the
Deceased on her oath saith, that the last time she saw the
Deceased her Husband was on Friday Evening last, when
he appeared to be perfectly well in Health, says the
Deceased was very subject to Violent Coughs and the
Rising of the Lights, and he has several times been in
danger of being choaked and suffocated in consequence
thereof, and once in particular believes he would have
Died of she had not given immediate assistance by striking
him several times on the back, Deponent says there
are no marks of Violence on the Deceaseds Body and
she verily believes he must have Died a Natural Death,

Susanah Pryce< no role >

Severally Sworn the
Day Year & Place above
-mentioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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