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

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Image 261 of 44113th September 1763


City and Liberty
of Westmr. in
the County of
Middx}

Informations taken this thirteenth
Day of September 1763 on an
Iuquisition on View of the Body
of Eleanor Newman< no role > Widow lying
dead of the Parish of Saint Clement
Danes within the Liberty aforesaid
in the County aforesaid.

Mary< no role > the Wife of James Dolaing< no role > of Pump Court
White Hart Yard in the Parish of Saint Martin in
the Fields in the said Liberty Porter on her Oath Saith
that on Monday the fifth Day of September instant
the Deponent attended the deced her Sister to Sir
John Fielding< no role > 's upon a Complaint of a Violent
Assault she had received, and was present when
her Sister was examined upon Oath before the said
Justice, when she swore that she had been employed
by one Patrick Mc Guinis< no role > in Waping and barding of
Corn and that ten Shillings was due to her, and that
when she demanded the Money he refused to pay her,
and Struck her five Blows upon the Head with
an Oak Sapling and gave her two Kicks upon the
Small of the Back with his Foot, and that she
believed the two Kicks had done for her, upon which
the Justice seeing the deced to be very bad, granted her
a Warrant agt. the said Mc Guinis. And Dept. further
saith that she attended the deced Home and left her
to the Care of other people.saysthat she called on her
the next Day and found her Ill in Bed, says the deced
complained of a pain in her side and Head, and Dept.
continued attending her from time to time during her
Illness says that last Wednesday or Thursday seeing the deced to
be very bad, Deponent discoursed with her said Sister
touching the Ill usage she had received, when she
complained of the Blows and Kicks she had reced from
the sd Mc. Guinis, and particularly said she believed that Kicks
in the Swall of her Back had done for her, says that
on Friday and Saturday last the deced was speechless




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