directly to the Watch house in Portugal
Street and acquainted the Beadles with
what I had seen, who [..] directly
with me and conveyed the deceased
to the Sign of the White Lion this Lodgings in Bear used near in Vere
Street and further I know not

The [mark] Mark
of Richard Fletcher< no role >

Henry Ralph Ruff< no role > of Stanhope Street
Apothecary being sworn deposeth
as follows, to Wit, That about 4
o' Clock on Saturday morning last
I was called up to look at a Watching
who was found dead (as they believed)
in Holles Street upon which I put on my
Cloaths and went to the Lodgings of
the deceased in Bear Yard and examined
the Body and found it quite lifeless
they to the Lord Limbs were flaxid
and there were no marks of Violence
upon his Body and I am of Opinion
that he did not die through the Incle
money of the Weather but of an Apoplectic
Fit

H Ruff

The Verdict
Sudden Death by the Visitation of God
To Wit of an Apoplexy

Robt Akroyd< no role >
Foreman