City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex

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Informations taken this Seventeenth
day of February 1784 at the Parish
of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex upon an
Inquisition touching the Death of
Mary Cunliffe< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Jane< no role > the Wife of Thomas Martin< no role > of Silver Street
in the of St. James Westmr. Shoemaker
on her Oath saith That she has known Mary
Cunliffe the Deced (wife of Gunliff)
about six Years, Says that the Deced and
her Husband sometimes had Wordswith her
Husband, and that the Deced used to Com-
to Dept. afterwards to acquaint her therewith
That the Deced called upon her last Wednesday
as she was going to Hire a Servant, When
Dept. (who had been informed of Deced's
having reced a Black Eye from her Husband
on the Monday Night before) asked her
how it happened, and Deced said that they
Quarrlled about some Wet Pettycoats hanging
up in the Maid's Room, and Deced said that
they had words that day, and Dept. advised
her to go home and live peaceably, but
Deced said Noting of having been Struck
that day, and Deced went home again
Says that on Saturday Morning last the
fourteenth Instant Mr. Gunliffe sent for
Dept. Desiring her to come to come to [..] lay out his,
Wife who [..] deced,Says that she went
and found the Deced dead in Bad Says that
she desired the Apothecary night be fetched
which was done, and he carefully Examined
the Deced who had a Black [..] and a
Bandage about he Waist and between her legs
on Accot. of a Rupture which Deced had, Says
that the Apothecary cut the Bandage, and
said that a Gut coming from the Belly if Twisted
would cause the Death, and often in four