LondonAnInformations of Witnesses taken at the
parish of Saint Bride
in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London the 24th. July 1788
on view
of the body of Margaret Butler< no role >
lying dead
William Barrow< no role >
of Castle Street Saffron hill
lodger at Mrs. Batlyes a Vicemaker maketh oath that
on Monday the 7th. instant dept saw [..]
Martha Robinson< no role >
Westing the deced in the fleet
market says she had hold of the
dead with her left hand by the lair & beat her with her right
hand on the face, & mar on her breast, & she struck the deced down
& then some persons came and took the deced away.
Sworn the 24th. July 1788
before me
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner
The mark of
[mark]
William Barrow< no role >
Charles Rozell< no role >
of Black horse Court fleet
Street
printer
maketh oath that on the 7th. put, as he believes
be saw the [..] prisr. Martha Robinson< no role >
& another
Women quarrelling in the fleet
market & striving to throw each
others thing down, both of them having fruit Slates in the fleet
market Says the dead came ever whose they were & Dept sayed
to her why do you not take care of this woman/means. Mr. [..]
the other /means the prisr. / has been tipping her on the now &
wanting to [..] here says Hobb & the prisr. then went to
fighting & the deced interfered to part them whereup a the prisr.
seizer her by the hair & threw her down & fell upon her; that
then some [..] persons [..] took the deced from the prisr.