City and Liberty
of Westminster }
to wit

Informations of Witnesses taken this
1st. day of August 1772 in the Parish of St.
Martin in the Fields at the Dwelling House
of Mr. Frost the Sign of the White Bear
in Hanover Street Long Acre . Before Thomas
Prickard< no role > His Majesty's Coroner for the City
and Liberty of Westminster touching the Death
of Catherine Fitzpatrick< no role > then and there
lying Dead as follow

Peter Fitzpatrick< no role > the Husband of the Deced who lodgers next
Door to the Whitebear in Hanover Street Long Acre in a House
belonging to Mr. Frost let out in Tenements on his Oath Says
that last Night at past 10 o'Clock he came home and went up
Stairs, and found the Door on a Far and pushed it open, and
went to feel whether the Bedsted was turned down, but found it
was not, Deponent then went to the Chimney piece and Struck
a light and light a Candle, and then looked round him and
Saw his Wife hanging, and being very much Surprized went out
of the room into the next and called the People that were there

and then went to Mr. Morris's China Man in Great Lacon Street to
Some People that he had been in Company with, and they came
back with him, Deponent left his Wife in the Room about 8
o'Clock in the Morning and drank a Dram together, and about
9 o'Clock in the Morning he met her in Duny Lane , Says she
was subject to Liquor.

George Frost< no role > of Hanover Street Long Acre Victualler on his Oath
Says that the Deceased came Yesterday about 4 o'Clock in the
Afternoon with a Chair in her hand and she ask'd Deponent
if he did not think she had bought a Bargain, he said he did
not know what she had given for it, and she said Nine pence
and Deponent let her have a Glass of Gin for scowering her
Rooms the Deponent being the Landlord of the House, did
not make any particular Observation.

Mary Norton< no role > Wife of William Norton< no role > on her Oath Says That
She Saw the Deceased Yesterday Morning between 10 & 11 oClockin
thein the Passage of their House, the Deceased said I ask your