City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Seventh
day of April 1788 at the Parish of
St. Margaret within the Liberty
of Westmr in the County of Midsex
upon are Inquisition touching the
death of Letitia Drink water< no role > now
lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Timothy Drink water< no role > a Lodger at Miss Hill
No.2 in Paddington Street St. Mary le bone
Paviour on his Oath saith That on Saturday
Night between Fire and ten o'Clock a
Month last Saturday the Deced and this
Dept. has Husband were coming along
Princes Street in the Parish of St. Margaret
Westmr. near the End of Queen Street
the Deced being before this Dept says
that a Cart drawn by two or three
Horses coming out of Queen Street
and passing by the Deced she either
fell down in the Street Accidentally or
in passing by the Driver of the Cart
was forced down, Dept. cannot say which
says that the Driver was on the Near saw
of his Horses, and when the Deced way
down the Driver of the Cart endeavour
to keep the Cart from the Deced but the
near wheel of the Cart passed over the
Deced's left dran Says that the Deced
reced a large wounded and Brine upon
the left answer, Says that the Deced was
to the Westmr. Hospital the [..] Day following where
she




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