Abraham Gott< no role > Servant to the deced on his Oath
Saith that hebecame into his Service On the
fourteenth of May last. That Yesterday afternoon
Dept. attended at Table and his Master and Mistress
both dined at Home, that in about twenty Minutes
time he look the Things away and went down
Stairs, says that he and his Fellow Servant then
went to dinner, Dept. leaving his master & Mistress
in the Parlour will Some wine on the Table
before them) says that presently after Deponents
dining he was alarmed by his Mistress Screaming
upon the Stairs, Upon which Dept. immediately
ran up Stairs and was followed by his Fellow
Servant Hannah Oakley< no role > , and on running up
Stairs he found his Mistress coming down, who
in formed Dept. that his Master had killed himself
and she returned with Dept. into the Room on
the Second story forward, where Dept. discovered
the deced sitting in a great Chair with a pistol in
his right Hand leaving upon the left Arm, and
dept. went up to him to examine where he was
wounded, and found a wound on the Top of his Head
his Face being bloody, and a great Quantity of
Blood upon the Ground, says the deced never
moved & Deponent believes he was dead at the
time he entered the Room Says he nerver heard
his Master or Mistress go up Stairs nor did he
hear the Report of a pistol says he staid in the
Room with his Mistress till some of the Neighbours
came says that the deced appeared to Deponent
to be a man of a Melancholly Disposition, says
that during the time Dept. has been in such Service
he never heard of any animosities or disagreemt
between his Master and Mistress says that his Fellow
Servant has expressed in Discourse with Dept. that she believed
her master had not been so easy since his Marriage is before

Abraham Gott< no role >

Mary Corry< no role > of Argyle Street Wife of the
Deced on her Oath Saith that Yesterday in the
Afternoon about five o' Clock the deced went
up Stairs, and the Deponent seen followed him up stairs,
and asked the deced whether he was coming down
Who answered he was looking for a Book upon
which Deponent went down, and on the deceds
not coming down, Dept. went up again and found
his Chamber door shut which she opened and
called out Corry are not you comming down and on
receiving no Answer Dept went unto the Room and
found the deced sitting in his Chair leaving backward
says she went up close to him, and found a Wound
in his Head, she then went to the Stairs and
Screamed out, and thereupon her Servants
Abraham Gott< no role > & Hannah Oakley< no role > & a Girl came
up Stairs and Dept. went into the Room with
them, but the Dept. never spoke nor moved, says
that she never heard any pistol go off, nor
did she see any pistol,until on moving the Deced
she saw a pistol drop on the Ground, says that
she believes the Windows were down, but she saw no Smoke nor
Smelt any Smell of Gun powder. says that the
Deced laboured under a Rapture for Several years
which gave him great uneasiness, and he several
times threatned to take Laudanum in order to
destroy himself, rather then go through any
Chirurgical Operation; says the deced was naturally
of a Melancholly disposition, she having been a
long time acquainted with him, altho' married
to longer than Six Months.

Mary Corry< no role >