City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 614 of 85831st July 1799


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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Edmund
the King in the Ward of Langbourn in London
aforesaid this 31st day of July 1799 on view of the
body of Ann Brazier< no role > now here lying Dead

Henry Greville< no role > an Errand Boy to Mr. Goldfinch No< no role > .57
Lambard Street London Hatter and Hosier maketh Oath that [..]
he hath known the deced between two and three Months that
she was a servant to Mr. Goldfinch That< no role > about ten oClock last
Night while the deced and Dept were sitting in a back Parlour
of the said House Dept observed the deced to take sudden fits and
hands out of the Chairthatshe was sitting in That for a Week or
ten days past the deced has appeared ill complained of a violent
pair in her head and scarcely eat any thing That about eleven
oClock last Night Mr. Redcross the Shopman to Dept Master
came home in order to go to Bedthat he went into Parlour
where Dept. had left the deced and Dept [..] was employed
making his Bed in the Shop that the deced went up the Stairs
in orderto go toas Dept. supposed to go to Bed that soon after Mr Redcross
the Shopman followed That [..] this Morning about seven
oClock on Dept going into the Kitchen which is underground and
looks into George Yard he saw [..] the deced in a Handing posturehanging neat the
near the dresser,by a Rope fastened to a Week in the cieling over to
to open
that her Cloaths appearedwerevery much burnt [..] Dept
called Mr. Redcross who went down to the deced andsoon after
a Porter from the opposite heard [..]
Dept stand upon the Kitchen Stairs and then saw the
deced was hanging by a Rope from a Hook in the cieling over she
dresser and that she was then dead that a Porter from the opposite
house upon the alarm being given came in That for these
three or four days past the deced has been very low spirited
and well

Sworn this 31st day of July 1799
before me}

Henry Grevelle< no role >

William Redcross< no role > Shopman to Mr. Goldfinch of No .57 aforesaid
maketh Oath that the deced has been a Servant to Mr. Goldfinch
about five Months Thatabout abouta little after eleven last
Night Dept. went home in order to go to Bed That Dept asked
a few questions of the deced and soon after the deced went up
Stairs to go to Bed and soon after Dept followed and Dept
see he go up the Stairs to her Bed Room that a little after




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