Middlesex To wit

The Information of Thomas Yates< no role >
Serjeant in the third Regiment of
Foot Guards taken before me this
10th. day of October 1769

Who being upon Oath says that on Saturday Night the 30th.
of September last he went to the Sign of the Dolphin in Cock
Lane Shoreditch with several Peace Officers, that on his
going into the said house he followed a Constable up Stairs
that at the Bottom of the Passage up one pair of Stairs
there is a door which was opened a little way by some
person and immediately street again that in a very short
time afterwards a Pistol or Some other kind of fire Arms
was shot off in thesaidRoom into which the Said door opened
the Charge of which came through the upper part of the
said Door, that soon afterwards the said Door was again pushed
open by one Perry a Soldier and that a Volley of fire Arms
was then immediately fired by the Persons in the said Room
the Balls of which struck the Wall very near this Informant
that afterwards several Soldiers fired by Order from the
Magistrate after which the said Soldiers went down Stairs
that this Informant followed them down Stairs into the
Passage on the Ground floor, that this Informant posted four
Soldiers at the foot of the Stairs and then Spoke to one
Adam Mc. Coy< no role > another Soldier, that he this Informant had