City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Twenty seventh day of May
1768 at the Pe County of Middlesex
upon an Inquisition touching the Death of Letitia
Hill< no role > lying dead in the said Parish Liberty & County.

Thomas Keate< no role > House Surgeon at St. George's Hospital in the
Parish of St George Hanover Square on his Oath saith. That
Letitia Hill< no role > the Deced was brought to said Hospital on the
Sixteenth day of this Instant in the Forenoon: upon
Examination Dept. found a Wound on the top of Deceds
Head and the Scull underneath Fractured, Says that
the Deced continued in the Hospital, that he had very little
hopes of her Recovery, and that she died there yesterday
Morning, the 26th. May, Says that since the Deced's Death
Dept. opened her Head, when it clearly appeared that
the Wound and Fracture were the cause of her Death
And this Dept. further says that the Deced was not at
any time perfectly Sensible in the Hospital to Depts.
Knowledge. And Says that the Wound appeared to have
been given with some blunt Instrument.

Tho. Keate< no role >

Elizabeth Hill< no role > of Robinsons Lane in the Parish of St. Luke
Chelsea in the County of Middlesex Widow on her Oath saith
That on the Sixteenth day of this Instant, Letitia Hill< no role > came
into the House where Dept. lived in the Forenoon having a
large Wound on the top of her Head, Which she told Dept.
She had given herself with a Hammer in the Coal hole of
Mrs. Pryse, with whom Deced lived, at Hammersmith in the
County of Middlesex , Says that Mr Slade an Apothecary was
called to Deced, who ordered her to be taken to St. George's
Hospital , where she was immediately carried. Says that she
continued there until the 26th. when she died. And this
Dept. saith that the Deced has been at times disordered
in her Senses ever since Easter 1767.

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Elizabeth Hill< no role >