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

Informations taken this Ninth day of
March 1774 at the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching the
death of David Miller< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

William Hooper< no role > of Brompton Park House in the
Parish of Kensington Gardener on his Oath saith. That on Friday
Morning Last (as Dept. believes) he was going along
a Field adjoining to Hogmoor Lane in the Parish
of Kensington with Richard King< no role > and Mr. Brown
Nursery Men, when Mr. King called out here
is a Man has out his Throat, (having first taken of
some Hay and Straw with which the Deced was
covered) at the Bottom at a Hayrick Says that he
looked at the Deced and saw him Bleeding from
his Neck, as he lay down on his right side, says
that Mr. Brown come back and said it was
David, That the Deced was very pale ratled in the Throat and wished
to be taken to the Hospital, Says that Mr. Williamson
was acquainted there with who sent to the Parish
Officers, and Deced was carried to St. George's Hospital
the same Morning, Says that William Harran< no role >
Depts. Fellow Servant the same Morning Shewed Dept. a Penknife
Bloody which he said he found in the Hay, where
dept. found the Deced, and sd. Harran afterwards
told Dept. that he had given it to Deced's Wife, says
that he has known the Deced above Twelve months
and has heard that the Deced within the last three
weeks has more than once attempted to make away
with himself.

William Hooper< no role >