CORONER INQ 1788.
(L+S)
NO 1 THOM. CRADDOCK

London

Information of Witnesses taken at the
parish of saint Margaret new Fish Street
in the Ward of Bridge within in London
the 9th. day of July 1788 on view of the
body of Thomas Craddock< no role > there lying dead.

William Hoy< no role > of No 4 Botolph Alley in the parish of Saint
George Botolph Lane London labourer maketh oath that on last
Monday morning between the hour of 9 & 10 the deced came to Dept
who was within side the monument and asked him if he could go up,
Dept answered he could & he thereupon gave Dept (who attends to show
the Monument for Mr. Taylor the keeper of it) a six pence & went
up the Stairs. Dept says three persons were gone up to no the
monument when the deced came; that in about five minutes after
the deced went up Dept heard a norse without occasioned by the
falling of the deced & he went out & saw the deced who had killed
himself by the fall.

The Mark of
Mich [mark] Hoy

The above Dept further says that the deced went and saw
the monument last Thursday morning Says he went up about 11
& did not come down until about one.

Sworn the 9th. day of July 1788.

James Robertson< no role > Master of the Workhouse of the
parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch maketh oath that the deced
came to lodge & heard with Dept in may last he was recommended
by the Churchwarden Mr. Moses Alsop who sayed the deced was a
little touched in the head & desired Dept to take care of himThat he
seemed very dejected in his sprit & would often talk to himself
That he sometimes would [..] Dept by the hand & say he was
happy he was or wall situated & burst into turns & cry like a Child