Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
touching the Death of Patrick Burgess< no role >
at the Dwelling House of Benjamin Austin< no role >
known by the Sign of the the London Hospital
in the Parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise Whitechappel in the County
of Middlesex on Saturday the twelfthDay of August in the
Twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the Third before me William Wilson< no role > 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
Patrick Burgess< no role > then and there lying
Dead as follow: to wit

William Islip< no role > one of the Labourers in the Mint at the
Tower of London living at No. 41 East Smithfield Upon
his Oath Saith That about eight o'Clock in the Evening
of Wednesday last he was coming from Lime house across
Stepney fields to London a Woman and Child being with him and in the path way near the
Rope ground met the deceased who came up to him and
begged he would not go any further as he the deceased was
Shot and immediately laid hold of Deponent by the Arm
and he walked back with the deceased to the Gner Drager
Public House at Stepney being the nearest House, as they
were returning to the House they met Ms. Hughes or
Butcher of Aldgate and a Ms. Barber Deponent
immediately said to them you mind go back again
with me this Man (meaning the deceased) is Shot
the deceased then appeared very faint and all of them
went into the Green Dragon . The Landlord of which
immediately sent for a Coach to take the deceased to
the London Hospital . The Coach being brought Messrs.