MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the tenth Day of April in the twenty Sixth Year of the Reign of
our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role > Esquire
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Bolgier< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Youings< no role > , Thomas Bedwell< no role > , William Pitcher< no role > , John Rogers< no role > , Nathaniel Reddington, Samuel
Monk, John Loft< no role > , William Swan< no role > , James Marchant< no role > , William Henson< no role > , Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176.
Joseph Chesney< no role > This name instance is in set 3174. Joseph Slamston< no role > John Daniel< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said John Bolgier< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That on the fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid the
said John Bolgier< no role > being at a certain Publick Alehouse known by the Sign of The George situate
in the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid in which
said Publick Alehouse One Michael Pendergrass late of the said Hamlet Labourer and also divers other
Persons were then present He the said John Bolgier< no role > then and there without any Cause or Provocation
whatsoever given by the said Michael Pendergrass in and upon him the said Michael Pendergrass< no role >
in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being violently did make an Assault
and him the said Michael Pendergrass did then and there strike and beat Whereupon the said
Michael Pendergrass< no role > for the Preservation and Safety of his Person and of inevitable necessity
did then and there with the Hands of him the said Michael Pendergrass defend himself against
such the violent Assault of him the said John Bilgier< no role > [..] for him to do And the
said John Bolgier< no role > did then and there receive against the Will of him the said Michael Pendergrass< no role >
divers Blows and also a Fall to and upon the Ground which brought an apoplexy upon him the said John
Bolgier of which said Apoplexy occasioned in Manner as aforesaid he the said John Bolgier< no role > from the said Fourth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid untill the Fifth Day of the same month in the same Year at the
Hamlet aforesaid And also at the Parish of Saint Mary White< no role > Chapell aforesaid in the County aforesaid
to wit in the London Hospital there situate did languish and languishing did live On which said fifth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid he the said John Bolgier< no role > in the Hospital aforesaid of the Apoplexy
aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Michael
Pendergrass in< no role > the Defence of himself him the said John Bolgier< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
did kill and slay

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said ThomJohn Youings
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Youings [mark] Foreman