London Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to says at the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Aldergate in the Ward of Portsoken
in London aforesaid this 25th day of April
1795 on view of the Body of Maxwell
Naysmith now here lying dead.

Thomas Elliott< no role > No.3 Lim Street Square London Surgeon
Etc Apothecary maketh Oath that he hath known the deced
Maxwell Naysmith< no role > about twenty years that-Dept apprence
to be as the deceds House in John Street yesterday Morning about Eleven
OClock the [..] for the deced-the deced soon after came to Dept.
in his [..] given Dept. asked the deced how he was (he having been ill sometime
before) the deced sayed he was very well-he continued a
little while with Dept. & then left him that he then look every wild with his Eyes-that in about five
Minister Dept. head the Report of a Pistol as Dept. believed
Dept. went up their and in [..] thefound Room onetwo pair of
StairsDept.back Roon Dept. found the deced lying upon
the Bed a great dead of Smoke in the Room his fore head
[..] shattered & good quantity of blood about Dept.
being a good [..] larned went down to the one pair of Stairs
Room [..] that some after Dept. was called upon the wants to the deced
Room on going into the Room the deced dressing Gown
being on fire Dept. extintuiched the flames Dept then
observed the But end of a Piston in the deced hand
[..] Meath back Dept. called on the deced in conquence
of his having a Fore [..] upon Dept. going seeing the deced
Dept.the deced with great wildness & earned stoneasked Dept
sayed to Dept look, last look at any Brant Dept. Exmined
for the [..] found no [..] particular appear and on his
Throat-that from that time until his Death Dept. has
observed great charge in the deced manner & and not
that he looked very wild talked very in copevently
& Dept. has every reason to believe from the observations
he has made upon the deced behaviours this last Month
past that he was very much Lenanged

Sworn this 25 day of April
1795 before me}

Thos. Elliot< no role >

NB. The deced Clerk, two Woman Servants & his Man
Servant were Sworn & examined & all confirmed she Witness Elliot as to
the Lenanged state of the deced for these had two Months.