City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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Image 758 of 78211th December 1794


came first to him at the Workhouse She appeared
to be very much in Liquor.

Thomas Adcock< no role >

Thomas Samuel Lemage< no role > of [..] to Church Window
and [..] of St. Martin in the Fields being sworn
deposeth and [..] that he was in the Officer in the
sd. Workhouse along with Mr. Chack one of the
Overseers between [..] last Night when the Porter
of the Workhouse observed & him (Mr. Chalk) that
a Woman had been standing some time at the Work-
-house door where upon this Deponent directed the
Porter to let her come to then into the Office when
she appeared to he exceeding intoxicated and
said her Name was Elizabeth Bishop< no role > and hired
in Dean's Street St. Anns at a Chandler's Shop
the Corner of St. Ann's Court whereupon Mr. Chalk
& this Deponent advised her to [..] home and
the Porter let her out at the Workhouse door
and this Deponent never saw her afterwards
Samuel Co [..] one of the Budles of St. Martins
in the [..] being [..] it about
half [..] but [..] for
by the Porter of the sd Workhouse to come the [..]
there was [..] at the Door who was very
trouble and [..]
the other [..] when the [..] go to the Work-
-house door the sd. Woman was done away [..]
whereupon they went up Castle Street [..]
of her and they here not gone [..] before [..]
somebody before them fall down with [..]
force upon the Ground, and her [..] it was a
[..] whom lift up, and [..] where
the [..] but they could [..] where and the
appeared to be [..] Liquor, and [..]
very much inclined to sit down on some [..]
there to rest herself, and then they advised
her to go [..] but he made no Answer
whereupon this Deponent and Baythorm lifts
her and told [..] (who was never at
hand) to take her to the Watch house of she [..]
afterwards be trouble some to any body and
about ten o'Clock the same Night the said
Watchman and another Person brought the
deceased




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