City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1763 - 30th December 1763

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William Rowse< no role > at the House and Groom in Eagle Street
Victualler on his Oath saith that yesterday Afternoon about
Six o'Clock being in his Tap room he heard Mr. Cooper above
[..] and that the Deced was hanging where upon her
run up and found him in the back Garrat hanging [..]
Handkerchief fastened to an Iron hook in the back part of
[..] says that a Surgeon was put for who immedi
-ately came and upon Examining the Deced, declared that
he was Dead, and did not attempt to bleed him Says
that the Decedcomplainedyesterday that he had charged the [..] with [..] of having used his
[..] [..] of Six pence, for which he was to be Imprisoned or ask
the Serjeant Pardon, and said he intended to do the
latter. Says that the Deced had been Drinking and
was their in Liquor

Wm Rowse< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
year and Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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