City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex

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Informations taken the Twenty sixth
day of January 1773 at the Parish of St.
Martin in the Fields within the Liberty
of Westmr . in the County of Middx upon an
Inquisition touching the death of a Man
unknown lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

John Nelson< no role > one of the Water man of the Parish of St.
Martin in the Fields on his Oath Saith, that on
Saturday Night last (Jany. 23.) as he was walling
the hour of Eleven he saw the Deced Sitting down
at the Door of the Pay Office White hall with his
Bark towards the Door says some People were
about the Deced and taking to him, to which the
Deced made some answer which Dept did not
Perfectly understand, and immagined the Deced to
be very much in liquor his Clothes being very Dirty
Says that he asked the Centinal who stands within
a few Yards of the Place where Deced was, have the
Deced came there, to which the Soldier Answered that
he had lifted the Deced up twice, but that he was
Drunk and could not stand, Says that at twelve
o'Clock he saw the Deced sitting in the same place
muttering something inperfectly to himself, Says the
he saw the Deced there assleep & snoring at one two
& three o'Clock, that at four o'Clock he took hold of the
Deced who then appeared tobe dying, upon which
he acquainted the Constable at the Watch house
therewith, and the Regulator of the Nightwho
ordredwent with Dept. to the Deced who was then alive & who was first
upon a Chairmans Horse and carried by Dept. & other Watchman to the Watchhouse
door, but they found that he was then dead, Says
that the Deced's Legs appeared to be Swelled but