London

Informations of Witnesses taken at
the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the ward of
Farringdon without in London aforesaid on
the 27th. day of December 1788 on view of the
body of Amos Smart< no role > now here lying dead.

John Redheard< no role > of Northampton Court Wards close in
the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of
Middlesex Turnpikeman maketh Oath and saith that
he gathers the toll at Holloway Gate Turnpike in the
Highgate Road that about five OClock in the Morning
of the Monday last (the 22nd: instt:) a Cart drawn by one
Horse with four People in the came up to the Turnpike of the Gate
in order to go through towards Town that he went to the
Cart (which stopt in the Gateway) in order the receive his Toll
from the persons that were in it that he received nine Pence
from the persons in the Cart for a Waggon that had part
through about an hour before that another Man who was
in said Cart was to pay the Toll for another Waggon that
had also passed through the Gate about an hour before but
having on Change, another Man who sayed he was an
Hortler jumped out of the Cart and went in with Dept.
into the Turnpike House in order pay him the Toll for said
there Waggon and also for said Cart that whilst Dept.
and said Hortler was in the Turnpike House he heard
an Horn blown which he supposed to the some Mail Coach
that he heard some persons whom her supposed to belong
to the said Mail CoachderivedHallsa out and say get out
of the Way speaking at Dept: supposes to the people
that was in the said Cart that some person any would and sayed Down you I shall get each when I like but Dept. being then in the
Turnpike House can't speak with certainly that soon
after Dept. heard something fall in the Read that he
got and Light and went out to the Gate he saw the said
Cart overturned that the deced was laying on the