City & Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Seventeenth day of May
1768 at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within
the Liberty of Westmr . in the County of Middlesex on an
Inquisition touching the Death of James Perry< no role > lying
dead in the said Parish Liberty and County

Robert Durnford< no role > of Drury Lane in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields Gold Beater on his Oath saith, That James Perry< no role >
the Deced has lodged with this Dept about a Year and three
quarters last past on the second Floor That the Deced had been from home above
two months (being gone to Northampton as Dept was informed
and returned to his Lodgings on Sunday the 27th. day of March
last, Says that he lay there that Night and went out
on Monday Morning (March 28th.) Says that he does not
know when the Deced came home to his Lodgings again he
having a Key to Depts. outward door, Says that he did
not see the Deced since, and inmagined that he was
gone again into the Country, Says that finding a
Stench in Deceds Room, he Bored a Hole in the Wainscot
with a Gimblet, and looking thro' it, he saw the
Deced sitting in a Chair in the Room, Says that
Mr. Tortington and John Fryer< no role > two of the Constables and
a Beadle of the said Parish were fetched who ordered the
Door of Deced's Room, which was Locked, to be forced open
Says that he then went in with the Constables and four
the Deced sitting in the Chair in the Room, being dead,
and appeared to have been dead a long time, and
[..] fied Says that he observed no Marks of Violence
upon the Deced, Says that the Key of Deced's Room door
was found upon a Table in Deced's Room.

Robt Durnford< no role >