Middlesex .

Informations of Witnesses taken at thedwellingLodge of the house of
Correction Clerkenwell the Sign of Bridewell
in the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex on
Tuesday the twenty first day of March 1786 Before
Edward Umfreville< no role > Esquire one of his Majesty's Coroners for the said
County touching the death of James Clarke< no role > then
and there lying dead as follow

Richard Ilsley< no role > a Prisoner one of the Nurses in the
Sick ward of the said House of Correction upon his Oath
Saith That the deceased was brought into the said
House of Correction about Six Weeks since as a Vagrant
That the next day he brought into the Sick ward very
ill of an Ague and fever which Deponent apprehends
was upon him at the time he came into the prison
that he has continued in the Sick Ward ever since
under this Deponents Care and Saith that Yesterday
Morning about ten o'Clock he died of the Agne and
fever as before mentioned and that he had every Care
and attention necessary shown to him and in this
Deponents opinion he died by the Visitation of
God and not by any ill treatment or otherwise
to Deponents Knowledge

Richard Ilsley< no role >