City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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are usually met with in Persons who have received bad Blaes on the Head
a Collection of Matter was also found in the Liver, and the Deponent is of
Opinion that the said Confused wound on the Deceaseds' Head was the
occasion of his Death

Dickinson

Mary Greenwood< no role > wife of George Greenwood< no role > who is a Grenadier and
Quartered at the Horse and groom in Hedge Lane in the Parish of St. Martin
in the fields in the Liberty of Westmr. on her Oath says that on the 11th,
day of August 1771 she was going along Duck Lane in the Parish of St.
Margaret Westmr . in the Morning she heard a great Cry out at a House
near the Sign of the Ship Alehouse , Deponent went to the House and looked
in at the Window and saw a Man in a Chair learning forward and a Woman
standing by the Man and holding his Head with one Hand and a Bottle or
part of a Bottle in her other Hand, Deponent saw the Blood run from
the Deceds head and upon asking who had done it the woman said with
on Oath it was she and it it was to do again she would, and then Deponent
went away, says there were several People in the Room when she looked
in at the Window. Deponent says she does not know the Name of the Woman
who had the Bottle or part of the Bottle in her hand and that said that she
did it, but believes she should know her again.

The Mark of
[mark]
Mary Greenwood< no role >

Margaret Mc. Neal< no role > Nurse in Westmr. Hospital on her Oath says, that
the Deceased told her that he heard a Cry of Murder between the Man and
his Wife and went to part them, says that he thought it was pretty well
over, for the Woman sat down and her Passion as he imagined abated, but
all of sudden he said he believed the Devil look her for she got up and
look a Quant Bottle and throwed the some quite out of her Hand and light
upon the Deceds head as he was standing before the Husband talking to him and endeavouring to pacify him the Deced told the Deponent the Woman said she
flung the Bottle at her Husbands Head, but that the Deceased said he believed
it was thrown at him rather than the Husband. Deponent says the Deced,
declared this several times to her while in his perfect longer before any of the
bad Symptoms appeared.

The [mark] Mark of
Margaret Mc. Neal

Susannah Firmary< no role > Widow of the Deceased on her Oath says that on Sunday the
11th, day of August 1771 about 12 o'Clock at noon she left her Husband the
Deced in his own Room up two pair of Stairs at the House in Duck Lane
where the Accident happened, the Deponent went to the next door for a Pail of
Water and on her Return going up the one pair of Stairs she her Husband
with his hand on the back of his Head and saw him turn in to the Room on
the said one pair of Stairs and heard him say Pray Mr. Knoll dont kill your
Wife though she has killed me, the Deced went up to his own Room and Depont.




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