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

Informations taken this Seventeenth
day of May. 1788 at the Parish of
St. James within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Midsex upon an
Inquisition touching the death of
William Terrant< no role > lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty and County

William Carpenter< no role > one of the Beadles of
the Parish of St. James Westmr. on his
Oath saith That he was in the Parish Watch
house on Duly last Night about a Quarter
before Ten o' Clock when Mr. Downs a
Magistrate Sent for him, Says that he
want asoon as the Watch, was set and
Mr. Downs informed him that a Marr
dropped down upon the Pavement in
Piccadilly in said Parish and that
he was dead and was carried into the
Yard of the White Bear Inn where a
Surgeon attempted to Bread him but
he bled a few drops only, and the
Surgeon said that the Man was dead
and Dept. believes him to be dead,
Says that by Mr. Downs direction the
Deced was carried in a Shell to the
Bone house of said Parish and Dept.
went with them, Says that there were
People in Piccadilly who knew the Deced
and said that he had lately been turned
out of an Hospital incurable Says
that he saw no Marks of Violence upon
the Deced and believes that he died
a natural Death.

W Carpenter

Sworn the Day Year
and Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }