City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1765 - 24th December 1765

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Image 31 of 62916th January 1765


City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Middlesex }


Informations taken this Sixteenth day
of January 1765 at Ebury Harms in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Middlesex , on an Inquisition
taken on New of the Body of a Woman Unknown
lying Dead in the said Parish of Liberty & County.

Ann Reynold< no role > Servant to Mr. George Randall< no role > in five
Field Row in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
on her Oath saith That on Monday last in the Afternoon
Deponent had been out and returned about a Quarter before
Seven o'Clock that Evening, Says that as the came to her
Master's Door she found the Deced lying down before her
Master's Door with her Head upon a Stone step before the
Door,Says thatand Deponent thought that she was Drunk
and asleep, Says that her Master opened the Door, and on
looking at the Deced by the Candle light,saidfound that she was
Dead, and Dept. believe that she was then Dead, Says that
Several People come to Deced, and some of them spread
an old Petycoat over Deced, which Dept. was informed was
found by the Deced on the Ground, Says that some time
after the Watchman and another Person carried Deced
away, and that she observed no Marks on Violence on Deced

Ann Reynolds< no role >

Elizabeth Spooner< no role > the Wife of John Spooner< no role > Victr . at the White
Swan in Chelsea on her Oath saith, That she has known
the Deced for about twelve Months last past, Says that
Deced calleduponat Depts. House last Saturday for a penny
worth of two penny, when she informed Dept. that she
had been at St. George's Hospital near Hyde Wark Corner
and turned out from thence as incurable, Says that
Deced then looked very ill, and complained of being very
weak, Says that her Daughter informed her that the
Deced had been in Depts. House on Monday last but Dept.
did not see the Deced at that time. Say that the Deced's
name is Jane. but that she does not her Sir name.

Severally Sworn the Day Year &
Place abovementioned, before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }

Eliz Spooner< no role >




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