Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged
on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching the Death
of Walter Horseman< no role > at the Dwelling House of John Rose< no role > the
Sign of the Anglers in Kentish Town in the Parish of St: Pancrass
in the County of Middlesex on Monday the Twentieth day of
February in the Twenty sixth Year of the Reign of King George
the Third Before me
one of his Majesty's Coroners for the said County on an
Inquisition then and there taken on view of the Body of
the said Walter Horseman< no role > then and there lying dead as
follow Vizt

Mary Horseman< no role > Wife to the deceased Walter Horseman< no role > late of
Kentish Town aforesaid Milkman upon her Oath saith that on Saturday
the Eleventh day of February Instant about two of the Clock in the
Morning she was in Bed in a Room on the Ground Floor of the Deceaseds
Dwelling house and the Deceased was also in Bed as this Examinant believes
in the Room over where this Examinant was and William Horseman a
Child about Ten Years of Age this Deponents Son who Slept in the Room
Adjoining that in which the Deceased Slept, came into this Examinants Room
and told her the deceased wanted her upon which she immediately got
out of Bed and went up Stairs without dressing herself and when she came
into the Deceaseds Room she found him Sitting up in his Bed and by the
light of the Moon which Shown in at the Windows (not having any
Candle lighted) observed his Head apparently quite black with
blood, the deceased immediately asked this examinant if she had got a light
she replied. No Horseman I did not wait for one, and asked him what
was the matter and how he came into that State, he replied the Lord
bless ye something has run over my Face, Examinant then went down
Stairs and the fire in the Kitchen then being burning she lighted a Candle
and returned with it to the Deceased and desired him to tell her how the
Accident happened he replied don't ask me, I don't know, Examinant
then called John Frotman< no role > a Blacksmith a Lodger in the Deceaseds
House desired him to get up and go for the Deceased Nephew William
Winkworth< no role > and the Doctor who lived up Town he did so and returned
with the Nephew but could not make the Doctor hear him. Examinant
says that before she Called Frotman She finding the deceased so bloody
examined what was the Cause of it and found his Head beat in a
Shocking manner in several places, the blood flowing Violently
which she endeavoured to Stop with a Pillow and while Frotman
was gone for the Nephew Examinant lighted afore in the deceaseds