City and Liberty
of Westmr. in
the County of
Middx}

Informations taken this 3d. June
1762 at the parish of Saint James within
the Liberty of Westmr . on an Inquisition
taken on View of the Body of Matthew
Mow< no role > there lying dead.

Mary< no role > the Wife of John Bissett< no role > of Peter
Street Cord winder on her Oath Saith that
the deced has been about three weeks last past ill
says that she Frequently went to deceds apartmr
in the same House with Deponents, to see how he did
says that last Sunday Morning she went up to
deceds Apartment where his Father then was and
she informed him that it was proper his Son (the
deced) should be sent to the Work house or an
Hospital, and that it was the deceds desire to be
sent to one of them, or that he should be lost for
want says the Father as Deponent understood, staying
at House with the deced all the Sunday she did
not go any were to him that day. but visited the
deced on Monday Evening, when the Father came
Home much intoxicated with Liquor, at which
time she went up to deced with his said Father
Says, the Key being on the outside of the Door in the
Lock, his Father unlocked the door, and Dept. &
deceds Father went into the Room, and Dept. discovered
the deced lying on the Floor at the Foot of the Bed
in his Shirt, in a crooked posture, and was then living,
says the called her Sister before she went to him
and She this dept. and deceds Father helpt him into Bed
says the deced hept crying out several times, ever Since
eleven o' Clock, which when he came now to himself
be explained that he had lain there [..] ever since
eleven o' Clock that morning (the time of the day being
then about 5 in the afternoon) says after giving him
some drink the Dept. & her Sister left deced to the
care of his Father and went down Stairs. says between
seven and eight said Monday Evening, Dept. was desirous
to see deced again, and accordingly provalled on two
other Women in said House to go into deceds Room with
dept and they all went and fund the Father sitting belived