City & Liberty of
Westmr in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Seventeenth
day of January 1776 at the Parish
of St. Anne within the Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Midsex upon an
Inquisition touching the Death of
Jane Penton< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

John Bradley< no role > Servant to Mr. Bradley of
Great Russell Street in the Parish of St. Paul
Covent Garden Distiller on his Oath saith That
one Afternoon, after it was dark, above a week
ago, Dept Does not know the day, he was in
his Master's Shop and on hearing some
Person in the Street say that a woman was
rum over, he went out and saw Jane
Panton< no role > the Deced lying upon the Ground in
the Middle of the Coach way in Covent Garden between
the End of Mr. Bradley's House and the Garden
That she was under Carriage drawn by
two Horses, which a man drove upon Frot,
but Dept. did not see the wheel of the Carriage
Pass over the Deced, Says that the Deced was
laid upon the Ground, and that the man
afterwards drove the horses forward
notwithstanding he was desired to stop
says that the woman lay upon the Ground
speechless and unable to move herself, Says
that she was afterwards bled and grew better
and said that her Daughter lived in Hayes
Court St. Anns and that she herself lived in
Gravel Lane Southwark , says that he does
not know how Deced Came under the Carriage
it being then quite Dark.

John Bradley< no role >