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

Informations taken this Third
Day of December 1762 at the
Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square in the said Liberty on an
inquisition taken on View of
the Body of Thomas Philpot< no role >
there lying dead.

Mary Holmes< no role > Spinster Servant to Peter Swan< no role >
at the Kings Head Pimblico Victualer on her
Oath Saith that Yesterday Morning after giving the
deced his Breakfast she took deced Stairs his Sea
Things in order to wash them says his Brother
Daniel Philpot< no role > -soon after she come down come to her
Masters House (where the deced ledged) and asked for
his Brother (undancing the deced) upon which Dept
together will said Daniel Philpot< no role > went up Stairs to
the deced's Lodging Room and went into the Room
and on her seeing the Curtains drawn so and the Bed
she and dowed there expecting the deced to be on
the Bed, says she left said Daniel Philpot there and
went into a other Room, the Dining Room to Cook for
us deced, and not finding him there she went intoto
another Room even with it, and open'd the Door, and
discovered the deced hanging by a Cord fixed to a
Brass Hook in the Wainscot says the then ran down
stairs, and desired or fellow Servant to call her Master
who come, immediately and lifted the deced up
to disengadge him from the Hook, says that there
were no Signs of Life in the deced and she believes
he was then dead. says the deced came to her Master
House on Monday last very ill, and Dept. set up B
Eighth with deced upon Account of his Illness
and Dept deced appeared between whiles to Dept. to be
very mock disordered in his mind.

The Mark of
[mark]
Mary Holmes< no role > .

Peter Swan< no role > living at the King's Head in pimblica
pimlico Victualer on his Oath Saith that Yesterday
Morning between nine and ten one of his Maids came to
the Stable and told Dept. Mr. Philpot had hanged himself
upon which Dept. immediately ran to his Lodging Room
and of finding him there, his Brother Daniel Philpot< no role >
sat crying in a Chair in deceds Lodging Room - says that Mary
Holmes< no role > informed Dept. that he was hanging in another Room