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

Informations taken this Twentieth day of
December 1771 at the Parish of St. Martin in
the Fields within the Liberty of Westmr . in
the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Nicholas Merry< no role > lying
dead in the said Parish Liberty & County

Richard Merry< no role > on his Oath saith That he has
lodged with his Brother Nicholas Merry< no role > the Deced
at the Corner of Bear Street in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields about four Years last past, Says that
the Deced was at home last Night,and Dept. went
to Bad between Ten and Eleven o'Clock last Night,
leaving this Deped and his Wife below Stairs, there
being Company at that him in the House, Says,that between
three and fan o'Clock this Morning he heard Mr. Morry
(who with the Deced usually lay upon the same Floor
with this Dept. in an adjoning Room) call to him
upon which the Deced got out of Bed and went to
the Deced's Room Door which Mr. Merry opened, and
desired him to go to the Deced, for she could not tell
what was the motter and when Mrs. Merry had
Strick a Light Dept. found the Deced upon the
Floor with a large Wound [..] his Throat and a
great deal of Blood upon the [..] & upon his Shirt,
(the Deced having no Cloaths onto Says that he called
some of the Lodgers who assisted [..] to left the Deced
to the [..] That the Deced breathed three or four
times after he was laid upon the Bed, but was not
able to speak, and that he died immediately, Says
the he found a Razor in one of the Deced's hands,
with which he believes the Deced gave himself the
Wounds in his Throat which was the came of his Death
by, that the Deced was naturally of a cheerful Disponts
but of about a Week last past [..] has been rather