City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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7th January 1773 - 28th December 1773

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Image 430 of 75028th July 1773


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Informations of Witnesses Severally taken
and acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign
Lord the King touching the Death of Eleanor Tomkins< no role >
at the Dwelling House of Mr. William Ketley< no role > known
by the Sign of the Three Tuns in the Broadway in
the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster on the 28th,
day of July in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord King George the Third. Before
the Thomas Prickard< no role > His Majesty's Coroner for
the said City and Liberty, on an Inquisition then and
there taken on View of the Body of the said Eleanor
Tomkins
< no role > then and there lying Dead as follow, to wit

Jane Mc. Kenzie< no role > Widow who Lodges at Mr. Thomas Plant< no role > s' the Sign
of the things head the cornor of the Broadway and George and Plow
Yard Victualler on her Oath says that on Monday night last about
half an hour after Eleven, she was in her Room looking out of the
Window and saw two Men using the Deceased Ill and in a rude
manner, and one of the Men the tallest pulled up the Deceds
Cloaths and hit her with his Hat and gave her a Shove on the Shoulder & the Deced fell but did not see any one of
them strike her any Blows, she heard the Deced speak but could not




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