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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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Image 221 of 67230th April 1791


Southwark Informations of Witnesses taken
at the parish of Saint Thomas within the
Borough of Southwark in the County of
Surrey on the 30th day of April 1791 on
nine of the Body of Mary Glanister< no role > now
here lying dead

John Riley< no role > of No. 1 Jerusalem Court Gracechurch Street
London Fruit [..] maketh Oath that about a quarter part one O Claock in the
afternoon of Thursday last the deced left a bag of Nots with Dept.
of [..] land in White hart Court Gracechurch Street aforesaid
that the deced [..] Dept. and [..] attempted to go across
Gracechurch Street from White hart Court -that when Deced
had got about two Yards from the end of the curt [..] one of the
Pavement facing whitehart Court a loaded Cart drawn by one
horse [..] pass [..] along the Street up the Hill towards
Cripplegate Street between the deced and the crub stone of
the pavement that another Cart drown by two or three
hornes passed at the same time down the hill towards London
Bridge that the decedandrewstopped to avoid the lastmentioned
Cart when the Shaft of the first mentioned Cart caught hold
of the deced and three her down in the Street and the Off Wheel
whenof the Cart passed over the deced belly and right Arm
Dept Immediately went to the deced and with the assistance
of another person took [..] her [..] and carried here into white
hart Court aforesaid and placed her m [..] seal there that are
apeared to hean Old Woman and was quite insensible that
her right Arm appeared much out and brusied and Clad very
much-that soon after the deced was taken in a Coach in order
to be conveyed to Saint Thomas's Hospital -that he saw the
deced this evening lying dead in saint Thomas's Hospital
that at the time the deced was thrown down by the Cart the
Driver of said Cart was on the near side of his Horne on the
pavement and that the horse was going the usual pace horses
go on going up the hill-Dept. don't think the driver couldme
have seen the deced at the time she was thrown down as before
mentioned

Sworn the 30th. day of
April 1791 before me}

[..] John Reilly




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