City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Informations of Witnesses taken, this 27th day
of September 1792 in the Parish of Saint
Martin in the Fields in the Liberty aforesd.
at the Dwelling House of Willm. Harrison< no role >
in Dukes Court St. Martins Land Known
by the Sign of the Crown before me
Anthony Gell< no role > Coroner for the said City
Liberty touching [..] Death of Mary
Chantre
< no role > then and there lying dead .

James Fletcher< no role > a Waterman at Hungerford being
Sworn deposeth and saidth that about half pant
Five o' Clock on Wednesday Morning last the 26th.
instant as he was going down the Court way at
Hungerford Stairs to pay his Seats into [..] Boat a man Named John Archer< no role >
was coming over the Craft he called to this
Deponent and said Fletcher here in a Woman
lies drowned where upon this Deponent said
his Sculls down upon the Causeway and went
our some Boats and [..] her out of
the Mudd from between two Boats and part
her upon the Cause way and took out of her
Pockets two Letters and a Number of Pawn
Brokers Dupplicates and one Shilling and
one Six Pence all if which this Deponent wife
delivered to John Allinson< no role > one of the [..]

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