City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 132 of 86120th July 1792


London Information of Witnesses taken at the Parish of
Saint Dundar< no role > in the West in the Ward of
Farringdon without in London the 20th.
July 1792 on view of the body of John
Gremant
< no role > there lying dead

Mary Wife of William Richardson< no role > a lodger at the
Rainbow public house in the Parish of Saint Dunstan in
the West London maketh Oath that Yesterday morning about
eight 8 Clock Dept called the deced who was a lodger in the
same soon to come to breakfast, he usually break fasting with
Deponent and her husband that afterwards Dept went up Stairs
to his bed room and there saw the deced hanging Says he was
repting on his knees & that a cord was about his Neck white was
fallened to a Stapte in the Wall That Dept gave an a [..]
& assistance came & cut the deced downA Surgeon was Seal for
but the deced was dead Says the deced & his Wife had lived on
bed teem and had parted for a considerable time part which dept
believes greatly distressed his mind; and Says she hashasnot seen
him chearful & in good spirits since.

Sworn the 20th. July 1792
before me}
T: Shelton Corr,

The Mark of
[mark]
Mary Richardson< no role >




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