City of Liberty of
Westmr
. in the County
of Middlesex
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Informations taken this Eighteenth
day of August 1779 at the Parish of St.
Margaret Westmr. in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the death
of
February
Barnaby Sheldon< no role >
lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty and County.
William Moore< no role >
a Corporal in Lord Spencer Hamilton< no role >
Company in the Old Stream Regiment of Guards on
his Oath saith that Barnabas Sheldon< no role >
the deced
was Soldier in the same Regiment and had
been Several Years, Says that the Deced was
Yesterday at Orders at the Horse Guards
with
Dept. and that Deced went from the Parade
about Three o'Clock towards home as Dept.
thought, Says that about Seven the same
Afternoon Dept. Went home to his Lodging at
Mr. Gilbert Ross< no role >
in Gardener's Lane
in the
Parish of St. Margaret Westmr. the Deced having
Lodged with Dept. in the same Room about
Eight Months, Says that finding the Room Door
Locked and the Key in the Lock on the inside
and being informed that the deced was gone
into the Room, Dept. desired the Door light
be forced upon which was done in Depts. Presence
Says that he went into the Room with Mr. Ross
and his son, and in one Corner of it saw the
Deced, sitting down as he thought, with his
Head leanily against same Firelocks, that he
saw a Cord very tight about the deceds neck
and fastened to an Iron Rasp drove into
a Wooden Quarter partition there Says that
he cut the Lord with his Knife, but Deced
was dead and almost Cold, Says that a
Surgeon Opened a Vein in Deceds Arms but he
bled very little and the surgeon said that he
was