Middlesex
Informations of Witnesses taken at the Dwelling
House of
Thomas Home< no role >
the Sign of the White Hart
at Broughton
in the Parish of St. Mary Abbott Kensington
in the County
of Middlesex
on Wednesday the twenty first day of
December 1785. Before
Edward Umfreville< no role >
Esquire
one of his Majesty's Coroners
for the said County touching
the Death of
Edward Heseltine< no role >
then and there lying Dead as follow
Elizabeth Burrows< no role >
Servant
to the abovenamed Thos
Horne< no role >
On her Oath Smith That on Monday Night
the Nineteenth day of December instant she went
up to the Room of the deceased in the House of the
said Mr. Horne (when the deceased Lodged) he call
him down to Tea with the Family and on opening
the Door saw the deceased hanging to the Peter
of the Bed and thereupon immediately claimed
the Family and one Richard Dell< no role >
a Bakers Man
in the Neighbourhood came and went upstairs
with this Deponent as fast as Possible and cut the
Cord with which the deceased was found hanging by
but upon Examination of the deceased's Body he
was quite Dead. That on Monday last decease
returned from I [..] (where he went ye day he some)
little before 3 o Cl. seemed very low and said he
had not and any Slepp all night and that he wod.
go up to his Room and lay down and desired Mrs.
House wod. send up to call him at Tea time.
The Mark [mark] of
Elizabeth Brown< no role >