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

Informations taken his Fifth day of April
1770 at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of Westmr . in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching the Death
of John Martin< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Thomas Bowley< no role > one of his Majesty's Coachman on his
Oath saith That on Tuesday last about six o' Clock in the
Afternoon he (being Helper to this Dept. in his Majesty's Stables)
desired Dept. to give him leave to go, the next Morning
to attend the Sherriff of Surry (who lives at Martin) to Braid his Horses Mane,
to which Dept. agreed, and he was informed that Deced
went on Hornback yesterday Morning Says that a little
after Ten o' Clock last Night (April 4th.) he was knocking at
the Mew Gate, when a Stranger came up to him and acquaintted
him that one of the Kings Footmen was kill'd at the End of Cockspur
Street by a fall from a Horse, and immediately after
another Man (who is Servant to the Princess Dowager of Wales
or the Princess Amelia) brought a Horse there, from which
the Deced had fallen off, and said that the Man was dead
Says that he took care of the Horse and in about a Quarter
of an hour went to see the Deced whom he found laid upon
a Table at the Porter's Lodge belonging to the Kings Mews,
and dead, and this Dept. says that the Horse brought to
him at the Mews Gate was his Property, and a very quiet
Horse, and says that the Deced was much addicted to Liquor
frequently used to Bleed at the Nose, and was but in an
indifferent State of Health, Says that the Deced's Head and
Cloaths were Bloody when he first saw the Deced last Night.

Thos. Bowley< no role >

George Keir< no role > Apprentice to Mr. Howse Oilman in Pall Mall
on his Oath saith That a Man in his Majesty's Livery knocked
at Mr. Howse's Door last Night about a Quarter before Eleven
o' Clock and light a Torch saying that an Accident had happen'd
Says that he looked out and saw a Man in the Footway
by the side of Mr. Pinckbeck's House in Cockspur Street, who
appeared to Dept. to be dead, several Persons being around him,
Says that in about a Quarter of an hour a Hackney Coachman
come up who said that he had stopt the Horse.

George Keir< no role >