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Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1244">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this twenty<lb></lb>
ninth day of May 1790 at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1245">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1246">Bridewell</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1247">St. Margaret</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
County. of Midsex upon and Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1270-1">Robert Cook</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ493">Prisoner</rs>
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there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1271"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1271-1">John Brown</rs>
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a Prisoner in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1248">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo1249">Bridewell</rs>
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on his Oath saith that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1271-2">Robert Cook</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ494">Deced</rs>
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was brought Prisoner there about<lb></lb>
five weeks bring charged for attempting to<lb></lb>
Pick a Person's Pocket in the Street when<lb></lb>
he did not appear to be perfectly well, but<lb></lb>
did not complain untill about a fortnight<lb></lb>
ago, when he complained of a Sickness<lb></lb>
and next day, he was feverich, when he<lb></lb>
was taken into the Sick Ward, and was attended<lb></lb>
by their Dept. Says that Mr. Hanover the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ495">Apothecary</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
his <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ496">Journeyman</rs>
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attended the Deced a sent<lb></lb>
him Medicines which Deced took, Says<lb></lb>
that the Deced had the Allowance of<lb></lb>
the Prison from the Governor, who likewise<lb></lb>
gave Dept. Money to buy necessary things<lb></lb>
for the Deced which Dept. did and gave<lb></lb>
to the Deced, Says that the Deced was<lb></lb>
not ill used by any Person in the Prison<lb></lb>
Says that the Deced's Fever continued<lb></lb>
that he grew worse and died last Night<lb></lb>
between Nine and Ten o'Clock and<lb></lb>
Dept. says that he died in a normal<lb></lb>
Way.</p>
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<p n="1273">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n1273-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ497">Coroner</rs>
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