City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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Image 34 of 46524th July 1788


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.




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