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

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John King< no role > of No. 20 Morr Lane in the parish of Saint
Giles without Cripplegate London Coachmaster maketh Oath
that about three OClock in the afternoon of Friday last Dept.
being applied to as one of the Constables of said Parish to go to a
House [..] in White Crop Street belonging to a Mr. Harrison which
House in let eat in different appartments Dept. accordingly
went to said [..] and on going to theDeptGarret of the House Le found
the Door locked Dept. burnt the Door open and in the back
room of the Garret Le found the deced lying dead on a Red in
the Room a Petticoat upon top of her and her [..] tied up
with a piece of Cloth [..]

J King

Mary Wife of John Ball< no role > of No 45 Whitecrop Street
Mahogany Knife Caremaker maketh Oath that she hath
known the deced Elizabeth Romain about five or Six Months
that the deced lived with one Penn in a Garret belonging to the
said Home-that lad Friday week the deced was sitting on
the bottom Stairs of the House-that the appeared very ill and sayed
that she had had a fit in the course of That Morning-that she
could not get into the Garrett Penn having the Key of the
Garret with him an Dept. understood-that between six and
seem in the Evening of that day Penn came horne and upon
some people belonging to the house speaking to him he carryed
the deced up Stairs upon his back the Garret-thaton about
[..] between six and seven in the Evening of Tuesday
last upon Penn coming home Dept. and one Mr. Rhodes
went up to the Garrett to see the deced that she lay on the Bed
and appeared very ill and appeared to be in adying Rate
Pen sent for some time which Dept. offered to the deced but
she appeared in capable of receiving it that between ten
and eleven Pen came down and sayed the deced was dead
Dept. then went up in Company with her husband and tied a




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