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Image 171 of 3727th March 1774


Middlesex
to wit}


Informations of Witness severally taken and
Acknowledged the Seventh day of March 1774 at
the House of Mr. Bird known by the Sign of the
Unicorn at Hoxton in the Parish of Saint Leonard
Shoreditch [..] before Thomas Phillips< no role > One of the
Coroners for the said County on view of the Body of
Elizabeth Tanner< no role > then and there lying Dead as
follow (to wit)

Ann Doe< no role > Wife of Samuel Doe< no role > Weaver Saith That four
Weeks ago next Wednesday Morning Informant was in
the Laundry in the Workhouse at Hoxton That Mrs.
Jones a Nurse was at the Door of the Salivating Ward
and Cryed out MurderThat Informant went to her
AssistanceThat Ann Holding< no role > had got her Hands
thro' the Window of the Ward and part of her Body
Endeavouring to get into the WardThat Informant
Pulled her Back and then went to her Work again
That Holding said She would Kill them All
That about an hour afterwards the Nurse Called Informant
again Cryed out Came for Gods sake here's Murder doing
That Informant went again found the Door open
And the Nurse [..] and Nancy Best and One Bailey werein
the Room besides the Deceased and Holding
That immediately after Informant went in Nancy Best< no role >
and One Bailey came inThat when Informant first
went in the Deceased was Sitting by the Chinney And




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