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Discovered starvation case at a Westminster house
Inquests reveal three women found starved in a garret after reliance on a peripatetic keeper Pattent and her companions. Elizabeth Stanton and Elizabeth Surman testify to movements before the inquiry, detailing lodging, thefts, and the improvised meals that led to illness and death. The coroner and jury convict Pattent and two others, with mercy shown in care provisions at the casualty house. Additionally, executions at Tyburn are noted along with a public lozenge advert for cough relief from Mr Leé’s in Well Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gie
Stoutelt
Elizabeth Stanton
Westminster
Elizabeth Farrent
Stanton
Partent
Fleet-market
Bet
Pattent
Mi‘tress
King-street
Shoe-Lane
Elizabeth Surman
Bell Alley
Colemian Street
Jones
Spital Fields
Surman
Elizabeth
Patient
St. Andrew’s
Newgate
Tyburn
Charles Brown
Christopher Dixon
Golden Square
John Broughton
Hugh Malony
Elias Davies
Cornhill
Eyres
William the
Holland
Prince of Orange