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The Several Information of John Beane< no role > Hannah Langston< no role > , George Potter< no role >
James Farmer< no role > & Mary Baine< no role > taken & acknowledged on Behalf of our Sovereign
Lord the King touching the Death of John Ashton< no role > at the Green Man in the Parish of
St. Mathew Bethnal Green on the 18th. day of June 1763 before George Grew< no role > on an
Inquisition then & there taken on View of the Body of the said John Ashton< no role > ; as follows.

John Beane< no role > of Hare street in the parish of St. Mathew Bethnal Green Weaver
on his Oath Saith that right opposite to this Deponents Window where he works at his
Trade there is a fieldwherein both have at time [..] Cathe pasture,& belonging to John Owen< no role > that
onTuesdayMonday the 13th day of June 1763 about 4 in the Afternoon Do saw the deced
John Ashton< no role > (as he is Called) in a [..] comon Farmers wheel barrow &
saw persons Deponent thinks there in number well grown lads wheel him
about as in play for their Divertion

the [mark] mark
of John Beane< no role >

Hannah Langston< no role > of St. MaThew [..] Bethnall Green wid & weaver
same day Saw, 6, or 7. Young fellows of take hold of the deced Ashton by his hold & other
Limbs & put him in to a comon Formers wheelbarrow & wheel him about
[..] there, for their Divertion as it appeared to Depon't

The Mark of
Hannah Langston< no role >

George Potter< no role > of same place Apothecary being Sworn Says that being
an Apothecary seing a Crond & Parish Chair by theParishwork house
approached to See & enquire what was the matter & was informed by the
decreted that being in Owens Field aforesaid where there was a pond where in
he sons washing his Leggs or Feet & John Ewen< no role > Master of the Field came up to him & having
a whipmade [..] of said whipin his hand there at ned to whip him & after wards
directed two boys the name of One, Kings land,to put this deced, in so
Barrow wheel & run the same down a hill sharp hill in the said Field &
shart him out of the said Barrow into the said Pond
to drag him out
of the Field And they two did tye Cord about him & drag him with




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