City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 188 of 76625th March 1789


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


Information taken this Twenty-
Sixth day of March 1789, at the
Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty of Westmr. in the
County of Midsex upon an Inquistn.
touching the death of Mary How< no role >
a Prisoner lying dead inthe
Tothill Fields Bridewell .

Elizabeth Hazel< no role > on her Oath saith That she has
been Prisoner in Tothill Fields Bridewell between
five and six Years That Mary How< no role > the Deced
a Prisoner , has [..] been in the Sick Ward
in the Prison about a Month complaining of
a violent pain in her Bowels, Says that the
Apothecary sent Medicines to the Deced several
times which she took, That the Deced had
the Allowance of the Prison from the Governor
and likewise some Money to buy what was
necessary for her, but the Deced grew wor [..]
having a Putrid Fever, and has not been
able to eat her Allowance for about ten
days last past, and died Yesterday the
twenty fifth Instant, and Dept. believes that
the Deced died a natural Death, Viz. of
a Putrid Fever.

E Haysell

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




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