City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CL | IC

5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMCLIC650020685

Image 685 of 101928th September 1789


by the Witness William Farrington< no role > That she has
observed the deceased there three or four days past very
Melancholy that she believes the deceased's Wife drank
very much and that the deceased was rather discontented
on that account for she heard the deceased say in the
Morning of said Saturday that she (meant. as Dept thinks
and believes his Deced's) Wife had served him so there
Eleven Years past meaning as Deponent believes that his
the deceased's Wife had been used to intoxicate thereof
with a Liquor for some Years fast

Sworn the 28th: day of September 1789
before me}

T:Shelton Corr.

her
Elizabeth [mark] Chamming< no role >
Mark

Edward Cook< no role > of No.46 Angel Alley in the parish of
Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate London Dealer in Old
Cloaths maketh Oath and saith that he hath used the
deceased house for Beer during the time he kept it that
he has observed the deceased at different times very dull
and Melancholy and agitated in his mind That he
really thought the deceased [..] in his senses there last
three or four days previous to his death from his neglection
his Business and intrusting it to a little Evil (his Niece)
not above [..] or nine Years of Age who was unable won
to give charge for a Six pence that the deceased neglected
his business both on Thursday Night and Friday Night
for several hours going up Stairs and leaving his business
to his Niece that he saw the deceased about eight OClock
on Saturday Morning last that he was very melancholly
their that he saw him again about three OClock in the Afternoon of
the same Day that the appeared very melancholy then and
or yed that he sayed he had been afflicted some Years
past that Dept reasoned with the deceased that he
seemed much agitated and melancholy And Deponent
is firmly persued and has no doubt but the deceased
was quite Leranged in his senses

Sworn the 28th. day of September 1789
before me}

T:Shelton Corr.

Edward Cook< no role >




View as XML