City & Liberty
of Westmr
. in the
County of Midsex
}
Informations taken this Thirty frist
day of March 1784 at Knights bridge
in
the Parish of St. Margaret in the Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the death
of
William Jenkins< no role >
lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty and County
William Yeates< no role >
Servant
to Mr. Henry Adams< no role > This name instance is in set 1591.
of Islington
in the County of Midsex on his
Oath saith, That Yesterday Morning about
Nine o'Clock he took the Deced and three
other Paupers into his Cart in order to
convey the Deced to the Parish of St. Mary
le bone
in the said County of Midsex where
Deced was to be Passed, Says that the Deced did appeard
to be all, nor did he complain to Dept. Says
that between Nine and Ten o'Clock at Night
between Kensington
and KnightsBridge
woman in the Cart desired Dept. not pull
her Apron otherwise that he would hurt her
Log, That in about five Minutes after
a Man in the Cart desired Dept. to stop
which he did, and the Woman put her Hand
in Deced's Bosom, and then said that he
was dead Says that he was then in Knights bridge
in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr. opposite
the Watch Box No:6. Says, that he enquired
for the Overseer whom he could not find
and then found the Beadle, and the Deced
was afterwards put into the Watchhouse
and Dept. believes that the Deced died a
natural Death.
The Mark of
[mark]
William Yeates< no role >
.