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

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Image 623 of 86127th November 1792


London Deposition of a Witness taken at London
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre
in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid this 12th: day of November 1792
on view of the Body of Sarah Doughlas now
here Lying Dead

Jane Poter< no role > a Prisoner in His Majesty< no role > 's Gaol of Newgate
maketh Oath That she hath known the deced Sarah Doughlas
about Five Months past
That she was also a Prisoner in the said Gaol that she hath
been in the Sick lived wherein Dept. attends the whole of
that time ill with a Pain in her side, a Swelling in her
Legs and appeared to be in a Consumption - That she was
an aged Woman about Sixty Five Years of Age on Dept.
understood - That she continued to waste away gradually
and to get worse daily until Saturday Morning last the
10th instant when she departed this Life - That she was
attended by the Surgeon of the Gaol during her illness
and Dept. has no doubt the aforesaid Complaint occasioned
the deceds death.

Sworn this 27th day of November 1792
before me}

Jane Porter< no role >




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