City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Image 16 of 7784th January 1790


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

Informations taken this fourth
day of January 1790 at the Parish of
St. Margaret within the Liberty of
Westmr . in the County of Midsex upon an
Inquisition touching the death of Jane
Williamson
< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County

Hester Williamson< no role > a Lodger to Mr. Cook
at the Sign of the Fleece in Tothill Street
in the Parish of St. Margaret. Westmr .
on her Oath saith That Jane Williamson< no role >
the Deced who lodged with Dept. in her Room
had been office led with a Fever ever since
Tuesday last, That she was very bad and
sometimes Rambling in her Discourse
Says that she went out Yesterday Afternoon
a little before three o' Clock leaving the
Deced in Bed in her Room alence, Says that she
returned in less than half an hour when
she was informed that the Deced had throw
herself out of the Window, three stones
high and was dead. and Dept. believes
that the Deced did throw herself out of
the Window in Depts. Room, and that she
was at that time in a Phrency occasioned
by the violence of the Fever.

Hestor Williamson< no role >

Robert Tinn< no role > a Lodger at the Fleece Inn
Yard on his Oath Saith That he was coming
in through the Gateway a little after three
o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon when he heard
something fall very heavy in the Yard
and in immediately saw the Deced lying
upon the Stone Pavement in the Yard
Bleeding from the left, Ear, Says that the
Deced




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