City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Informations of Witness taken upon
Oath this 5th. day of January 1789, at the,
Workhouse of the Parish of Saint Margaret
Westminster in the little Almonry in the said
Parish of Saint Margaret Westminster . Before
Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman , His Majesty's
Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster
on view of the Body of Thomas Perkins< no role > then
and there lying Dead, as fellows,

Alexander Patterson< no role > a Supeunmary Watchman of
the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster on his Oath saith
That on Friday night last the 2d. of January Instant
about Ten o'Clock, as he was going his Round he same
the Deceased (who so Name he has been informed is Thomas
Perkins
< no role > ) [..] sitting at the Door of Mr Green the
a cross the Footway. Deponent asked him to get up
and Deponent with one John Burton< no role > a Westminster
who came up at the time assisted in getting the Deced
up, and brought him to the Watch House and laced him on the Arm Cheat Deceased then
thanked the Deponent and Burton and said he hoped
he had done nothing [..] miss W. Shewing the Warder was




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