City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Mary Ashenford< no role > Servant to Dr. William
Rowley
< no role > of Saville Row St. James on her Oath
saith That Mary Steel< no role > the Deced attended
Mr. Hubert in Dr. Rowley's House, That on
Wednesday Morning the Ninth Instant about
two o'Clock, on hearing Mr. Hubert Groan< no role >
Dept. went into his Room being three pair
of Stairs, where she found him lying on the
Floor, and helped him into had, Says
that in another part of the Room was
Mary Steel< no role > the Deced lying upon the Floor
with a large Wound on her Throat which
had bled very much That she Saw a Roger
open and Bloody on the Floor, and believes
that the Deced gave herself the Wound in
the Throat with the Roger Says that
on Friday last the Eleventh the Deced being
alone in the Room three pair of Stairs, Dept.
a Chair crack Dept. went into the Deced's
Room and saw the Deced, go out of a
Window, endeavoured of catch her but
was too late Says that the Deced Groand
when Depenot. lifted up her Head and [..]
Says that the Deced was carried into the
House, and reced such hurt as Dept. believes
[..] her Death as about half an hour
And Dept. says that the Deced had a Start
Wastes [..] on when she [..] herself out of
the Window.

Mary Ashenford< no role >
[mark]
her Mark

Elizabeth< no role > the Wife of George Shenner< no role >
a Taylor , Lodgers at Mr Humphry [..]
of the Crown on Road Street Carnaby Marks on her Oath
saith That she has known the Deced about
[..] Years That she saw her on Sunday the [..]
of this Instant, Monday the Seventh &
Tuesday the Eighth, at all which time
the Deced appeared to be Disordered in
he Mind.

Elizabeth Shene< no role > [..]
[mark]
her Mark

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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