December 1790

on the 1st. December last ask'd Relief in the Parish of St Lawrence Old
Jewry London was apprehended and taken before Mr. Alderman Sawbridge
and by Order of that Date passed from thence to St Clement Danes in the
Way to the Parish of Coverley Gloucestershire as a Vagrant as his last
legal settlement, from whence he was committed and on the same day
taken into the Custody of the Pass Master at his place of Reception for
those People at Islington and put into a Cellar paved with Bricks and
upon damp straw where he lay till he was removed on Wednesday the
8th. Instant, being allowed 2d. and a Pennyworth of Victuals and Drink
per day. That on Wednesday the 8th. he was with 14 or 16 more
Paupers removed by a Cart on his Road to Coverley but that on Bays
Water Hill in the Parish of Paddington in that Road the Cart Wheel
broke and the Cart fell (which was about 11 or 12 o Clock) and in
which state hardly able to stir the Driver left him and he with the
assistance of some of the other Paupers Crawl'd on to Mr. Peakes who
keeps the Black Lyon Alehouse on that Road and that the Master of
that House let him stay for some Hours but that the Pass Master not
returning with a Cart and it growing dark the Mr. Peake insisting
upon his going to Kensington or that she would turn him out of her
House, He consented to go to Kensington with her Man and which he did
with the almost difficulty but upon his being so delivered to an Overseer of
Kensington and the Tale told and he appearing so ill the Overseer thought
fit to put the Man into a Hackney Coach and send him back to Peak's
but Mr. Peake yet refused to take Cognizance of the Man and he was
brought back again immediately and put into Kensington Workhouse
and taken care of and on the next day about Twelve o Clock the Pass
Master came to fetch him away to go on his Journey but the Workhouse
examined and found the poor Man in an unfit state to remove and on the
next Morning he died and he has been buried by the Officers of Kensington .

Resolved that the Pass Master to make a Return
every Session of the number of Persons which have been passed from the
end of the proceeding Session and that such Return be inserted in every
County Paper in which Return is to be contained an Account of the state of