Middlesex
to wit}

Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and
Acknowledged the Twentieth day of April in the
Twenty Second Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign
Lord King George the Third at the House of James
Burnett< no role > known by the Sign of the London Hospital
in the Parish of Saint Mary White Chapell in the
County of Middlesex before Thomas Phillips< no role > One
of the Coroner s for the said County on view of the
Body of Francis Fort< no role > then and there lying
Dead as follow (to wit)

Samuel Ungley< no role > of Stepney Waterman Saith
That on Good Friday last (being One of the Officers of
the Hamlet of Ratcliff ) he Called in at the Watchhouse
about Two o.Clock in the Friday Morning
That the Deceased was sitting on a Bench there
And Appeared to have been Stabd' in the right
BreastThat there was a Plaister on but
who Put it on Informant does not Know
That Informant got the Workhouse Chair and
Assisted in bringing him to the Hospital
That they got to the London Hospital with him
about three o.Clock the same Morning
That the Surgeon [..] there told Informant to
make Strict Inquiry after the Person who did it
for the Wound was very badThat (being
an Officer) this Informant went the same
Morning on Board the Ship Miners a Capt.
Peacock lying off Stone Stairs
That when the Deceased was in the Watchhouse
before he was Brought to the Hospital