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

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Margaret Wife of Samuel Gill< no role > of Kingsland Road Painter
maketh oath that yesterday son night about I in the eve Dept saw
a Coach going along the read fast, rather faster than Coaches usually
go but not so past she thanks as the mail Coaches generally pass, that
she heard a sureaming & afterwards the Coach went on much faster than
before says she looked into the highway & saw the deced lying there.

Sworn the 1st. day of June
1790 before me T Shelton Corr.

The Mark of
Margt. [mark] Gill< no role >

John Armstrong< no role > of Kingsland Road a Conslatte maketh
oath that last Monday sennight lit in the eve Dept was told a Coach
that was passing on the road had nun ever a Woman upon which he
followed the Coach which went sent fast a counderable distance and at
length evertook it when the driver gave his name to Dept & sayed
his Master who belonged to the Coach was Mr. Bottom of the Saracens
Head hin in Aldgate

Sworn the 1st. day of June
1790 before me
T. Shelton Corr.}

John Armstrong< no role >

John Philpot< no role > Servant to Mr. Alder of Savage Gardens
maketh oath that last Monday sennight same Ladies and [..] Children
of his Masters family had been out for the day in a Coach if Mr. Rollans
that was driven by William Smith< no role > ; that in their return to me passing
through Kingsland Road , as the Coach was going at the rate he believes
of about six or seven miles an hour he heard a screaming & turning
round to took he saw a woman lying in the road; that the Coachman
drove on but did not mend his pace until they got [..] near
Shoreditch Church and then he drove infast until stopped by the last
Witness John Armstrong< no role > .

Sworn the 1st. June 1790
before me T Shelton Corr.}

John Philpot< no role >




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