City & Liberty
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Informations of Witnesses taken this
17th.. day of January 1798 in the Parish of
St. James at the House of Wm. Goodess< no role >
the Sign of the Unicorn at the Coroner of
Jermyn Street and Duke in the City and
Liberty aforesaid before Anthony
Gell< no role > His Majesty's Coroner for the
said City and Liberty touching then &
there lying dead, as follow
To Wit.

John Armfield< no role > a Lodger with Mr. Goodess the
Landlord of the Unicorn being sworn deporeth
That he has know the deceased between five and
six years and has runtime at the Unicorn
several times of late that about eight o'Clock
last Night this Deponent came to the Unicorn
to where he lodged, that a little after ten
o'Clock he had occasion to go to the Necessary
and when he got there he observed the Door of the
Necessary was shut whereupon he went up Stairs,
age in and returned a little time afterwards
and perceived the Door was still sheet, upon which
he mentioned the Circumstance to Mr. Goodess