Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledge on the Behalf of
our Sovereign Lord the King touching the
death of Duncan Robertson< no role > at the Sign
of the Weavers arms in Bakers row in
the Parish of Saint Mary Matfellon
otherwise Whitechapel in the County of
Middlesex on the twenty fourth day of
November in the twenty seventh year of
the reign 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 Majesties Coroners
for the said County on an Inquisition
then and there taken on View of the
saidBody of the said Duncan Robertson< no role >
then and there lying dead as follows

Abraham Silk< no role > of Smarts Buildings Chandler
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
between the Hours of six and seven in the Evening
as he was coming out of his House in Smarts
Buildings aforesaid three Men came Down the
Buildings one of whom was in a striped short
Jackett and upon their coming nearly opposite
Deponent House the Person in the Dress above
described stopt and looking back as if apprehensive
some person was following him said ''Blast or
Bougre his Eyes served him right'' That upon
coming up the Buildings near to Holborn saw
two men one with a Candle looking as they
informed Deponent for a Hat which they
afterwards found at the Back Door of
Corner House in Holborn being a Patten maker