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

Informations taken this Twelfth day
of March 1772 at the Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty of Westmr . in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching the death
of John Husham< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Thomas Keate< no role > Surgeon on his Oath saith, That
on the Sixteenth day of February last John Husham
a Soldier in the first Regiment of Guards was brought
to the Regimental Hospital in Petty France in the Parish
of St. Margaret Westminster with a large Wound upon
the left side of his Head and the Scull bare, and some
slight Bruises upon his Elbows & Arms which he reced on the fifteenth in the Earning Says that
proper care was taken of him in the Hospital, and
the Deced walked about in the Hospital, and for
Sixteen or seventeen days no bad Symptoms appeared,
that the Deced then grew worse and died in said
Hospital on the Eleventh day of this Instant, Says
that he this Morning opened the Deced's Head, in
said Hospital, and found a large Quantity of Matter
upon the Membranes of the Brain, extending over
the [..] greatest part of the Surface of the left Hemisphere of the Brain
which Deponent believes to be the came of Deced's
Death. And this Dept. says that from the Appearance of the wound. he believes it tobe
have been occasioned by a Blew which the Deced in some
manner received. And this Depts say that the Deced was sensible
until within a few days of his Death.

Thos. Keate< no role >