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

Informations taken the 26th. day of July 1763.
at the Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Middlesex on View of the Body of
Thomas Howard< no role > there lying Dead.

Joseph Cooper< no role > a Lodger to Mr. William Rowse< no role > of the Sign
of the Horse and Groom in Eagle Street Painter on his Oath
saith, that Yesterday Afternoon about Six o' Clock Deponent
being in said Rowse's House, and going up Stairs into the fore Garr [..]
(where deced, who was a [..] and Quarter'd at said House
lodged) to see for a Kite which belonged to said Rowse's Son,
and not finding the Kite, he went in to the back Garret
and there discovered the Deced having by a Handkerchief
fastened to an Iron Cook which was in a fire of Timber on the
back part of the Room upon which Deponent called out to
Mr. Rowse, and immediately after game Down stairs, and
then returned with a Person (whose name he knows not) whom he found on the Ground
Floor to the Deced, says the Person unknown took deced by
the Hand and said he was Dead, Deponent says that he likewise took
hold of Deceds hand found it cold, and verily believes that he had
been some time Dead, but they did not cut him Down
Deponent says that he frequently said Deced and never
observed any uneasiness in him until yesterday about
four o Clock, when the deced informed him that he had
misbehaved to his Serjeant for which he was to be sent
to Prison in the savoy or to ask the Serjeants Pardon at the
head of the Rigment says that Deced was much concerned
there at, and said he wod. the latter to avoid Imprisonment
says that the Deced had been drinking and that he was
then [..] Liquor.

Joseph Cooper< no role >