City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1772 - 30th December 1772

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Jane Hill< no role > House Maid to Mr. Aislabie in Grosvenor Square
on her Oath saith That Yesterday between Seven & Eight
o'Clock in the Afternoon this Dept. being in the Servants Hall
with Elizabeth Longstaff< no role > and Isabella Thickston< no role > when Mark
Horsman
< no role > the Under Butler came to them and desired them
to go with him, upon which they went with him to the
Butlers. Pantry, with a lighted Candle, and there saw the Deced
lying upon the Bed with a Wound on each Breast, and
his Shirt Bloody, Says that she saw one Pistol on the
Floor and another on the Bed Says that the Deced Ground
but did not speak and soon after died, Says that she
believes that the Deced shot himself with the Pistols
abovementioned, Says that the Deced has talked of late
very incoherent, and Dept. believes that the Deced was
not at all times in his Senses.

The Mark [mark] of
Jane Hill< no role > .

Isabella Thickston< no role > Laundry Maid to Mr. Aislabie on her
Oath saith That she believes the Deced James Haley< no role > has
for Years past, been at times Disordered in his Mind.

Isabella Thickston< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year and Place above-
mentioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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