City and
Liberty of
Westmr. in the
County of
Middx}

Informations taken this Seventh day
of June 1762 on an Inquisition on
this Body of John Dixon< no role > lying dead at
the parish of Saint Ann Sohowithin
the said Liberty

William Wright< no role > of Compton Street Oylman
on his Oath saith that the deced has lived
with Dept. as a Servant about fifteen years
that for about a year last the deced has been
ill, and was a Flicted with a Low ness of Spirit.
says that about twenty minutes after Six this
Morning Deponent came down Stairs,and
looked into deced's Chamber which was on
the Ground Floor and had a [..] Sash Door
belonging to it, but did not see the deced,
altho' he observed that the Bed was humbled
as if laid in. Upon which he inquired of
two other Servants of Depts. whether they had
seen the deced, who informed Dept. they had
not, taken ordered then to see where the
deced was, and in [..] Short time the maid
returned and informed Dept. the deced was
hanging in the Warm [..] Vault lying
under the street, says he immediately ran
down and discovered the deced hanging by
a Cord fixed to an Iron Bolt which fasters
a Grate over the Vault, says he instantly
cut the deced down, who was then warm but
as Dept. believes dead. that be sent his man
and maid for Apothecaries . that thereupon
Mr. Maccoulow Apothecary imediately
came and opened a Vein in each Arm but to
no purpose, the deced being then dead