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23rd January 1786 - 18th December 1786

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Image 663 of 68124th November 1786


Middlesex


Informations of Witnesses Severally taken
and Acknowledged on the behalf of our
Sovereign Lord the King touching the Death
of Duncan Robertson< no role > as the Sign of the
Weavers Arms in Bakers Row in the Parish
of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise White
Chapel in the County of Middlesex on the
Twenty fourth day of November in the
Twenty seventh year of the Regin of our
Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace
of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King Defender of the faith and so forth before
me Edward Walter< no role > one of his Majestys
Coroners for the said County on an Inquisition
then and there taken on view of the Body of
the said Duncan Robertson< no role > then and there
lying Dead as follows

Isaac Hunt< no role > of Church Street in Mill End New
Town in the County of Middlesex Glazier being sworn and
examined the day and year and at the place above mentioned
upon his Oath saith That on Thursday the Sixteenth day of
November instant about the Hour of Six in the Evening
as he this Deponent was in Company with the deceased
Duncan Robertson< no role > walking in the Street in High Holborn
near unto Newton Street he felt some Persons Hand
in his Left Hand Coat Pockets upon which putting
down his Left hand he seized a Mans hand which
he (now looking at Michael Walker< no role > [..] in Custody)
knows to be the same person He then seized the said
Michael Walker< no role > by the Cellar and insisted upon his
going to some house to be searched and intended to
carry him to some publick House for that purpose
that at the moment of seizing him he saw him
convey something to an Accomplied which he Deponent
believes to have been his Pockett Book Deponent
seeing some other Persons following and believing




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