Middlesex (to Wit)

The Information of Ann< no role > the wife of Andrew Angus< no role > of
Nine Gravel Lane Shadwell Mariner and Samuel
Clifton< no role > a private Soldier in the Coldstreoun or second
Rigment of Foot Guards, in the second Company
Commanded by Colonel Morgan. Taken before us
Two of his Majestys Justices of the peace in and for
the said County.

Who being on their Oaths severally and respectively say and first the said Ann
Angus< no role > for herself saith That between Eleven and Twelve o Clock last night as
she was Standing at the door thushold of her said house with one William
Walls< no role > her Lodger she heard the report of a Gun and immediatlysheturn [..]
round she saw the said William Watts< no role > lying on the broad of his back and
Groaning very pitcously when she called to Mrs Thomas the Beadle who had
but a minute before passed her door who came back immediately, but what
she wasafterwardsthen in such a distressed Situation of mind that she did not know
what was said or done otherwise then that he was taken into her back
Room & put on the Bed there where he died, Further Saith that she believes
the Gun so fired as aforesaid was fired from the house of Mr. Davies of New
Gravel Lane aforesaid Chandler who soon after [..] such firing came Over
to Informants house when he took the head of the deceased between his Legs
and held him up and sayed he hoped he had not taken the life of any
person especially of a person who never hurt or harmed him. That the said
Mr. Davies then desired Mr. Thomas to go for a Dorter and most Earnestly desired
that nothing might be wanting and to spare no Cost,And the said
Samuel Clifton< no role > Saith for himself that between Eleven and twelve O Clock
last night sa [..] was at the house of Mr. Angus abovementioned and in Coming
down Stairs he heard the report of a Gun, and when he opened the Street door
he looked over the way and perceived the abovementioned Robert Davies< no role > standing
at her Chamber Window with a Gun in her hand and so seeing him asked
him what he was going to do who replied he did not know what he was
going to do immediately after which the said Mr. Davies pulled the Tregges
twice but it not going off he threw the Gun down Twice as if in a passion
and took up another Gun, and fired it off. when he pulled up the Gun
which he had first Attempted to Fire (and did something to it but what
this Informant cannot tell) and pointed the same to where he was standing
it went off and [..] the Contents thereof was Lodged in the Body ofthe
[..] William Watts< no role > when he immediately fell, and as he believes Mercer
afterwards spoke, Saith that at the time the above accident happened he
was Standing at the door of Mr. Angus together with the deceased and Mrs
Angus, and that he himself must have received the Contents of the piece had
he not providentially with drawn himself a little on One side