City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex.}

Informations taken this 22d. day of February
1766 at the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden within
the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex
on an Inquisition touching the Death of a Man
Unknown lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

Henry Hennings< no role > one of the Beadles of the Parish of St.
Paul Covent Garden on his Oath saith, that on Thursday
Night last a little before Nine o'Clock Dept. was going to
see the Watch of said Parish set, says that near to the
Parish Church he saw some of the Watchmen and other
People, standing, and on going to them Deponent
saw the Deced lying on his Back on the [..] Strps [..] [..] upto the Gallery Says
that the Deced was not Cold and Dept. run for a Surgeon
who came there and on Examining the Deced said that
he was Dead, And this Dept. says that he was informed
By some Persons there, that a Boy whose name they
did not know had found the Deced hanging by a piece
of Liqour [..] called Dimothy, fastened to the Iron Rails, near said Church
and that the Boy had cut the Dimothy by which the
Deced hung. Says that the Deced was soon after carried
to the Bonehouse of said Parish, and that he does
not know the Deced.

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}

Heny. Hennings< no role >