Southwark

Depositions of Witnesses taken at the Parish
of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark
in the County of Surrey this 24th. day of December
1795 on view of the Body of Edward Archer< no role >
now here lying Dead.

Thomas Findall< no role > No. 4 College Street Tooley Street Clark to
Messrs. Reeve & Green Canterbury Square Merchants maketh
Oath that he hath known the deced Edward Archer< no role > about
three years that he was a Hatter by business That about
a fortnight age he met the deced on London Bridge That the
deced told Dept. he was going to the Earl Indies & asked Dept. to go
& have a farewell pint of Beer Dept turned back with the deced
& event into a publick House where they had a Pot of Beer together
that while there the deced complained & sayed times were
every hard that he could not live that he would go to the East
Indies & Lad engaged himself. that he swore very meet and
talked in a very incoherent way Sayed that his Master & he had
quarrelled Dept. really the ought then that the deced was deranged

Sworn this 24th. December
1795.}

Thos. Tindall< no role >

Henry Dawson< no role > of No. 17 in the Maze Southwark Chandler
maketh Oath that between Six and sevenyeTuesday Evening
last Dept. being in his Shop heard some one Strick out Dept.
went out into a passage which parts his House & the deced's
& upon going into the passage into which the Door of the deceds
house opens the Door of the deced's house being open he saw Mrs. Archer the deceds
Wife sitting on the Stairs & the deced on the floor his head in his
Lap that a piece of Silk Handkf was hanging by a Nail in
the Cieling at the bottom of the Stairs & another piece of handkf
about the deceds Neck. That the deceds wife sayed he has
hanged himself & I have cut him down Dept. saw a Knife
just lay that Dept. lifted the deced up that he appeared to be
quitedead Dept. took the piece of Handkf from round the deced
Neck. that no person lived in the deceds House but himself &
Wife That for this fortnight fast the deced has behaved in a
very wild look manner from what he used to do that he talked
in a very mild incoherent way appeared dull & melancholy
as if very much troubled in his Mind & from his behaviour
altogether Deponent really think, he was decayed in his Mind

Sworn this 24th. December
1795.}

his
Henry [mark] Dawson< no role >
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