London and Southwark
1788
No 37

Informations of Witness taken at the parish of
Saint Thomas with in the Borough of Southwark in the
County of Surrey on the 18th. day of October 1788 on
view of the Body of Mary Welch< no role > now here lying
dead.

Thomas Rolp< no role > of No. 2 Grange Walk< no role > Bermondsey
Southwark Surgeon maketh Oath and saith that
he was send for to his House between 11 & 12 October on Thursday
Evening last to attend at St. Thomas's Hospital that
when he came found the deced in one of the Wards of
said Hospital that the examined her and found the deceds
Windpipe divided and the passage for the Food in
past dividedthat Dept: apprehends in to have been
done with some Sharp Instrumentthat Deced
seem sensible-that she asked her if her Husband
had done [..] the deced shook for head to signify
No as Dept. apprehends-that he then asked her
if she had done it herself she then nodded her
head signifying as Dept. apprehends Yes-that
Dept. dressed her Wound and left her-that the
most Morning [..] Yesterday the 17th instant
on his comeing to the Hospital he was informed the
deced was dead that soon after the went to the
Ward where deced was and found her dead
That Dept: has no doubt but the aforesaid Wound
was the came of her death.

Sworn the 18th. day of
October 1788 before me}
T Shelton Corr.

Thomas Rolph< no role >

Elizabeth Overing< no role > of living at the Bottom of Meeting
house Walk Parish of St. Mary Magdalen Bermondsey
Widow maketh Oath and saith that the deced and one
Edward Welch< no role > who cohabited with the deced as her
husband hath lodged at Dept. house for this five