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

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Pardon for disturbing You last Night, Deponent said I know
nothing of it I heard no disturbance, she answered I and my
Husband had Some Words, about 5 or 6 o'Clock in the Evening
of the Same Day Deced borrowed a pail & a hair Broom of
this Deponent to clean her Room, and in about half an hour
brought them back and returned her Thanks saying she would
not trouble her much longer for she intended to buy some
Deponent says about ½ after 10 in the Evening the Deced's Husband burst open the Room
Door where Deponent lodged with a Candle in his hand and
Cried Neighbour, Neighbour Come and See Come and See and
Clapping her hands together and desired Deponents' Husband
to call Mr. Frost the Landlord, and then said he would go he
his Frainds.

The Mark of
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Mary Norton< no role >

Richard Wabb< no role > , Carver & Gilder who lodges at Mr. Frosts in
his Oath Says that last Night about a quarter before 11, a
Mom came into Mr. Frosts and said a Woman was hanging
next Door, Deponent went and cut the Deced down, she

was hanging with her Trace to the Waniscot, with the Rope or
Cord fastned to a Wooden Pin fixed in a frame of Pins and fastened
to the Wainscot, a Chair was standing by her, and one of her feet
was resting on the Chair by her toe, when cut down she appeared
quite cold, a Surgeon Bled her, and he said he believed she
had been hanging an hour or two

Richard Webb< no role >

John Ammory< no role > Servant to Mr. Worlock of Castle Street on his
Oath Says that yesterday between 4 and 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon
he was in his Master's Shop which looks into the Decads Room
theDeponentDeced was Washing at the Window, she told the Deponent
[..] her Husband had been at Sea 25 Years, that she had several
Children by him, that he was a very honest Man, that she
was an Old Clothes Woman and that Old Clothes Women would
yet a drop now and then, Deponent says one day in the
Middle of this Week he saw the Deceds Husband pull her
by the Stair in their own Room on the Floor.

John Amory< no role >




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