Middlesex
Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledged on the Behalf of Our
Sovereign Lord the King touching the
Death of
Peter Murrell< no role >
at the Workhouse
in Littel Grays Inn Lane
in the parish
of Saint Andrew Holborn in the said
County on Saturday the Twenty third day
of December in the 27th Year of the
Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the
Third before Mr
Richard Collett< no role >
one of his Majestys Coroners
for the
said County of Middlesex
on an Inquisition
then and there taken on View of the
Body of the said
Peter Murrell< no role >
then and
there lying dead as follows (to wit)
James Oldfield< no role >
of No 13 Baldwin's
Gardens
in the said Parish of Saint Andrew
Holborn above the Bars
Watchman being
Sworn and Examined at the time and
place abovementioned Maketh Oath and
Saith That about Nine o Clock in the
Evening of Wednesday last, going his Rounds
He met with the deceased standing near a
Publick House in Little Grays Inn Lane
known by the Sign of the General Wolfe
that he appeared greatly intoxicatedThat
Williams Brown
William Wallis< no role >
(the Watchman for Liquor
Pond Street Beat) was then in Company
with this ExaminantThat the Examinant
and the sd Wm Wallis [..] led the deceased about
half Way up The Kings Road and there
set him down in the Foot Path being the
Extent of this Examinant's Beat while
the Examinant andthe saidone Wm Barns