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

Informations taken this Fifteenth
day of November 1788 at Knightsbridge
in the Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty of Westmr. For the County
of Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the Death of a Man
unknown lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County

William Kent< no role > of Kensington Gore in the
Parish of St. Margaret Westmr . Victualler
on his Oath saith That this Morning
about five o'Clock this Dept. man [..] up
and Dept. noon followed and was to be by his
Man that a Black man lay before the Houses in the took any
and would not get up, and Dept. saw Deced
lye there, and ordered his Man to fetch
some Hay and to put the Deced upon it,
which was done, says that the Deced
appeared to be very cold and did not speak
That he ordered his man to give Deced
some Warm Purl which he did, and
Deced drank it, and said, God Bless you,
which were the only words the Deced affored
Says that the Deced lived until about
Seven o'Clock, That he sent for the Beadle
who came there Soon after seven o'Clock,
but the Deced was dead when the Beadle
saw him and Dept. Thinks that the Deced
died by the Inclemency of the Weather
the Night being very Cold.

William Kent< no role >

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