City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 537 of 70623rd September 1784


City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }


Informations taken this [..]
October 1784 at [..]
Hanover Square with [..]
Westmr. in the County of [..]
upon an Inquisition touching [..]
of a Woman unknown [..]
the said Parish Liberty and County

William Bonifant< no role > at the Water [..]
Hyde Park in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square on his Oath saith That above [..]
minutes after Ten o'Clock last Night [..]
Lett the Water into the B [..] in Hyde
Part and returned immediately
saying that he found a Woman's Clock
hanging upon the Rail there and was [..]
afraid the Woman was Drowned, upon
which he took a Drug there, and saw
the Deced fitting in the Bason says
that he threw the Drag in and the [..]
him catched her Cloaths and at her out [..]
of the Bason appearing to be dead, but
Dept. observed no Marks of violence as per
the Deced, Says that he acquainted [..]
Storer the Undertaken therewith [..]
had the Deced carried away [..]
House, says that he was [..]
the Evening and heard no [..]
out, and therefore behaviour [..]
Deced Drowned herself.

[..]

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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