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Image 162 of 44320th February 1786


Middlesex


Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign
Lord the King touching the Death of Walter
Horseman
< no role > at the Dwelling house of James
Rose
< no role > the sign of the Anglers in Kentish Town
in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the County
of Middlesex on Monday the twentieth day
of February in the twenty sixth year of the
reign of King George the third Before me.

One of his Majestys
Coroners for the said County on an Inquisition
then and there taken on view of the Body of
the said Walter Horseman< no role > then and there lying
dead as follow Vizt.

Mary Horseman< no role > wife to the deceased Walter
Horseman
< no role > late of Kentish Town aforesaid Milkman
upon her Oath saith that on Saturday the eleventh
day of February instant about two of the Clock in the
Morning she was in Bed in a Room on the Ground
Floor of the deceaseds Dwelling house. and the
deceased war also in Bed as this Examinant believes
in the Room over where this Examinant was and
William Horseman< no role > a child about ten Years of age
this Deponents son who slept in the Room adjourning
that in which the deceased slept came into this
examinants Room and told her the deceased wanted
her upon which she immediately got out of Bed and
went up stairs without dressing herself and when
she came into the deceased Room she found him
sitting up in his Bed and by the light of the Moon
which show in at the Windows (not having any Candle
lighted) observed his head apparently quite black with.




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