City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 697 of 94911th October 1790


LondonDepositions of Witnesses taken at London that
is to say at the Parish of Christ Church in the Ward
of Farringdon without in London aforesaid the
11th day of October 1790 on view of the body of men
John Doughty< no role > now here lying dead.

Richard Watts< no role > a Prisoner in His Majesty's Goal of Newgate maketh
Oath that he hath known the deced John Doughty< no role > about eight Months
that he was also a Prisoner in the said Goal that the Southwark
on the sick be not whose
[..] that some little time back the
deced being taken ill was in the Sick Ward but getting be the leftinthe
Sick Ward that deced lodged in the same Room with Dept. that on Friday
Morning last the deced fell down in the Yard of said Goalwithin
a fit that he continued about half an hour in that condition-that on his
recovery the appeared some what better that about twelfe OClock on
same day the Surgeon of the said Goal came there and the Deced went
to him in order to get some Medicine-that he went to Bed about
eight OClock-that Dept went to the deced about ten OClock when he
appeared to be a sleep-that about two Oclock in the Night he heard
the deced Green and one going to him about half an hour afterwards
he found the deced dead.

Richard Watts< no role >




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