Middlesex
Information of Witnesses Severally Taken and Acknowledge on the behalf
of Our Sovereign Lord the King the Twenty third day of July in
the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty five
At the House of
Sarah Tidd< no role >
Known by the
Sign of the Red Lyon
near the London Hospital
in the Parish of Saint Mary White
Chappell
in the County of Middlesex
before
Thomas Phillips< no role >
One of
the Coroners
of Our Said Lord the King for the said County
touching the death of
Millecent Lacy< no role >
then and there lying dead
as follow (to wit)
Martha Cousins< no role >
of
Bakers Row
White Chappell
Spinster
Saith she Carries
Milk
for her Bread-That she did not Know the said Millicent Lacy< no role >
till last Friday she was Coming up White Chappell Road
with her
Empty Pails about Seven o Clock in the Evening she saw Jim
Slack< no role >
riding along the raid upon a Middling Trot on One side
of the Way and Another Person was riding on the Other side of the
Way about Twenty Yards before him upon a Trot likewise -And they were
going towards the TurnpikeThat the Woman Millicent Lacy
was coming across the way about Twenty Yards from the
London Hospital
That the Other Person on Horseback
had Passed Lacy And Slack Endeavoured to Stop his Horse as
much as he could And Called out three or four times God
Bless You Woman get out of the ways But some how or Other
Slacks Horse Knock'd her down and she Believes trod upon
her for her skull was very much Fractured
That after Slack had Beat her down he Turn'd his Horse
round and was Coming Back to her But the People in
the Road Called out to Knock him down and then he
turn'd his Horse again and rode Gently towards the
TurnpikeThat Informant went and helpd to take her up
and intended to go with her to the Hospital But another
Gentleman that was there said he would take care of her
That she Bled very much But she (this Informant did not
see any other Wound than in her Skull And this Informant
left her in the Case of the said Gentleman
near the Hospital
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