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

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Image 102 of 94916th February 1790


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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that
is to says at the Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise
Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid the 16th: day of February 1790 on view of
the Body of Elizabeth Evans< no role > then and there Lying
Dead.

Rebecca Miles< no role > a Lodger with James Miles< no role > of the Fleet Prison Widow
maketh Oath that she has known the deced Elizabeth Evans< no role > Between
eight and nine Weeks - That she was a Prisoner for Debt in the said Prison
and kept a kind of Shop - That she used to buy things of the deced that
[..] on saturday noon last Dept. went to the deced Shop for the Purpose
of buying some thread - That the deced then Complained of a violent pain
in her Bowels and appeared very ill that about twelve OClock on the
Sunday Morning following Dept. having been sent for to look after the
deced went to her Room or Shop and Found the deced ill in Bed - That she
appeared very much conveslsed and had a fever on her that she talked
very wildly during the most part of the Afternoon that the continued ill
until between the hours of Three and Four in said Afternoon when she
departed this Life - And Deponent has no doubt the Fever and
consulsions occasiond the deced death.

Sworn the 16th day of February 1790
before me}

T. Shelton Corr.

Rebecca Miles< no role >




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