City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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10th January 1780 - 30th December 1780

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Image 343 of 4705th September 1780


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Informations of Witnesses taken upon Oath this 5th,
day of September 1780, at the Dwelling House of Mr. William
Woods
< no role > the Sign of the Crown in Petty France in the Parish
of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster , Before
Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman His Majesty's Coroner
for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of Jonathan
Fidler
< no role > then and there lying Dead as follow, to wit.

Elizabeth Mitchell< no role > who lives with her Brother John Mitchel< no role >
a Baker in Milbank Street in the Parish of St. John the Evanglist
Westminster on her Oath saith That on Wednesday the 30th. day
of August last she was setting on a Steel in the Dorn way of
the Shop of her said Brother's House, between two and three
o'Clock or thereabouts, she saw a Dray with two Horses
belonging to Richard Pearce< no role > Esqr. Brewer in Milbank Street in
the said Parish, the fore Horse was a Stone Horse, standing
Still just against the Door of her Brothers' House, Deponent,
saw a Man whick she understands was the Deceased and
that his Name was Jonathan Fidler< no role > coming along driving a
Team with three Horses with Lacks in the Cart, and he
was between the said Dray and his own Horses in the place
that he should be, Deponent says as the fore Horse of the
Deceds




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