City & Liberty of
Westmr in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this first day
of January 1779 at Tothill Fields Bridewell
in the Parish of St. Margaret within the
Liberty of Westmr in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the death of
Peter Eaton< no role > then & there bying dead.

Joseph Bishop< no role > a Prisoner in Tothill Fiels
Bridwell on his Oath That he has been a
Prisoner there about eight weeks, That
the Deced was brought Prisoner a Little
time after, appearing to be in Health
that he continued well untill about a week
Age when he was Seized with a pair in his
Road and Bowels, that he afterwards green
worse and was feverish, That on
Wednesday last he was sized with a Rolling
in the Throat, and died between, one and
two o'Clock this Morning, having been
Delicious yesterday. Says that the Deced
had every Day has Allowance of a Penny
and a Perry worth of Broad from the Govern
That the Deced was Confined in the same
ward with Dept. and some other Prisoners
and in no improper Place in the House
That the Deced had no Quarrel with his
Fellow Prisoners, and was not ill Treated
either by the Keeper or any of his Servant
and Dept. believes that the Deced died [..]
Death

The Mark [mark] of
Joseph Bishop< no role >

Sworn the Day upon
& place above mentioned
before me
Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner }