City & Liberty of
Westminr . in the County
of Middlesex

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Informations taken this Twelfth
day of March 1785 at the Parish of
St. Paul Covent Garden within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Mary Norman< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Samuel Howard< no role > of Southampton Street Covent
Garden Surgeon on his Oath saith, That on the
fifth Instant Dept. was desired to go to the
Deced whose Throat was act and the Windpipe
& Gullett Divided, the Wound being three Inches long,
given by a Knife as Dept. was informed
the Knife being Bloody, and Deced told
Deponent that she had given herself the wound
Says that he attended the Deced, who died
last Night, and Says that the Wounded
abovementioned was the cause of her Death
And Dept. Says that he thanks the Deced was at times
Insane for the last Twelve months.

S: Howard

Mary Shore< no role > Cook to the Deced Mary Norman< no role > in
Southampton Street in the Parish of St. Paul Covent
Garden on her Oath saith, That on Saturday the
Fifth Instant this Dept. was with the Deced in
her Bedchamr. about Ten o'Clock when Deced was
about ordering something for Dinner, but said
that he Head was so confined that she did not Know
what to do, That the Deced was soon after in
the Parlour's and ordered Dept. to take care of
Mr. Tyers's Fire There, Says that in about
five Minutes She was informed by her fellow Servants