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

Informations taken this Eighteenth
day of April 1772 at the Parish of St. Margt.
within the Liberty of Westmr in the County
of Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching
the Death of Robert Murray< no role > an Infant
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and
County.

William Murray< no role > Son of the William Murray< no role > of
the Broadway in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr .
on his Oath saith, That on the Seventeenth day of
April Instant, this Dept. was playing with his two
Brothers James Murray< no role > and the Deced in the Yard
Backwards about three o'Clock in the Afternoon
Says that his Brothers were hiding themselves
in the Shop and in the Yard, That this Dept.
went up Stairs to his Mother to fetchsomethingDeced's [..]
to direct the Deced (who was about two Years
of Age) That he came down immediately but
could not then see the Deced, Says that his Mother
was called down Stairs, who enquired for the Deced
and Dept. looked all about for the Deced, and
at last found him in the Soil in the Necessary
House with his face down wards, Says that he
lifted the Deced out of the Soil, when the Deced
appeared to be dead, Says that two Boards at
the Bottom of the Necessary had been taken up
on Wednesday last in order to have the Necessary
cleaned out, one of the Boards being taken up
by Mary Shipsay< no role > a Lodger there, and the other
Board by this Dept.Says that there was no
Person in the Yard with the Deced but his Brother
James, and believes that the Deced's Death was
Accidental.

Willm Murray< no role >

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }