London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishops-
-gate without in London aforesaid the 28th
day of September 1789 on view of the Body
of William Williams< no role > then and there lying
Dead

William Farringdon< no role > to No:4 Montague Court in the
Parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate London
Labourer to the East India Company maketh Oath and
saith he hath known the deceased William Williams< no role > about
six Weeks that about the hour of five in the Afternoon of
Saturday last being in his Dept: [..] he heard some Boys say
the Man at the Public house had hang himself that
the event out of his house into The Court and saw a [..]
end evening to get in at the Window belonging to the house
known by the Sign of the Ship in said Court kept by the
deceased but the Man could not get him at the Window
that Dept. went round to the Street Door and him, [..]
another Mary and a Woman who were there went up [..] to a one pair
of Stairs Room in deceased house that the Door was fast
that the Woman forced the Door open that Dept said Woman
and another Man went into the Room, and saw the deceased
hanging by a Cord (or rather sitting) fastended to a Nail and an
Iron Shewer fastened into the side of the Wall that Dept [..]
him down that the deceased felt warm but no appearance
of Life that a Surgeon who had been sent for came that the
Surgeon sayed nothing coud be done to recover the deceased
that the deceased never recovered

Sworn the 28th day of September 1789
before me}

T:Shelton Corr.

Wm. Farringdon< no role >

Elizabeth Wife of John Chammings< no role > of No:5 Montague
Court aforesaid Peter maketh Oath and saith she hath known
the deceased about six Weeks or two Months that he kept the
Ship Publick house corner of said Court that about the hour of
five in the Afternoon of Saturday Afternoon last she heard an
alarm that the deceased had hanged himself that she went out of
her house to the deceased's house and went up Stairs at Depored
to by the last Witness William Farrington< no role > and about the
Door open and saw the deceased in the situation in described