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Kentish Post 16-3-1768
To be sold by auction to the best bidder, on Monday the 21st of March, between the hours of one and four o`clock in the afternoon, at the sign of the Swan in Folkestone: The Good Will fishing lugger, burthen 35 tons more or less, now lying on Folkestone Stade, William May late master, being a prime sailer and well-found, together with her anchor, cables, masts, yards, sails, rigging &c. For further particulars enquire of the abovesaid William May, or Mr. Lawrence Squire of the said town of Folkestone.
N.B. The above lugger is Folkestone built, carved work, and fit to be converted into a sloop.
Maidstone Gazette 24-3-1840
On Saturday an inquest was held at Folkestone by John James Bond Esq., Coroner, on the body of John Hills, aged seventy, an oversea pilot, who expired that morning at three o`clock, from the effects of eighteen grains of opium taken by him on the previous Thursday evening to allay a cough and cause sleep.
Mr. John Boorn, druggist, deposed that deceased bought at his shop on Thursday afternoon two-pennyworth of opium, which weighed about thiry six grains, and that while witness was weighing the article deceased remarked that he was troubled with a bad cough, and he had frequently found relief by taking an opium pill.
Deceased was at the Swan public house on Thursday evening playing cribbage. He drank about a pint and a half of beer, and took the opium in pills just before he left to go home to bed, washing the pills down with the remainder of his beer. He was in good health, with the exception of a cough.
It appeared probable, from other evidence, that deceased took about half the quantity he purchased. One of his neighbours, finding that he was not up at two o`clock on Friday, went into his bedroom and found him lying in his bed, foaming at the mouth and speechless. Mr. Major, surgeon, was sent for and promptly attended, and had recourse to the usual remedies in such cases, but without any effect. Deceased lingered until three o`clock the following morning, when he expired.
Verdict: Accidental death from incautiously taking too large a dose of opium as a remedy for a cough.
Later date for Swan
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