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

Informations taken this Fifteenth day of
December 1772 at the Parish of St. Martin in
the Fields within the Liberty of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching
the Death of Martin Cascater< no role > lying dead in
the said Parish Liberty and County.

Thomas Brown< no role > of Hungerford Market Waterman
on his Oath saith That he David with the Deced
Martin Cascater last Sunday (Decr. 13th) at his House in Hungerford
Market in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields and
left the Deced at his own House about three oClock
that Afternoon when Dept. went in a Boat, rowed
by John Mc. Quest< no role > to the Red House at Battersea
Says that they returned in the Evening and a little
after Seven o'Clock Mr. Quiet brought the Boat to
Hungerford Stairs , and there be the lowerside of
the Cause way, within about four foot of it, and
about twenty foot from the Stairs, they found the
Deced lying upon his face in the Mud, being rather
upon his Rivers, and the Clothes upon his Back above
Water and scarcely Wet, Says that he lifted the Deced
Head out of the Mud, and that the Deced was soon
after carried upto his own House, That he fetched
Mr. Norton the Surgeon who opened a vein in the
Deced's Arm. but he did not Bleed, and Mr. Norton
then said that he was dead, but Dept. believes that
he had not been lone in the Water, The Tide being
then Ebbing. Says that the Deced was very weak
and had lost the use of his left Arm. and believes that
if the Deced fell down in the Maid, where Dept. found
him that he was unable to get up wishout Assistance
Says that the Deced has been for some time easy in his
Mind. and Dept. believes that he Accidentally fell into the
Mud in the River Thames , where Dept. found him and was there
Suffocated and Drowned

Thomas Brown< no role >