City and Liberty
of Westminster }

Informations of Witnesses taken this 22d. day
of July 1773 , in the Parish of St. James in the
Liberty of Westminster at the Dwelling House
of Mr Edward Laincey< no role > the Sign of the Peter and
Stay in Peter Street. Before Thomas Prickard< no role >
Gentleman His Majesty's Coroner for the Said
City and Liberty touching the Death of Martin
Prentice< no role > then and there lying Dead as follow

Sarah Prentice< no role > the Widow of the Deced on her Oath say that last
Night about 7 o'Clock she came home to her Lodgings at Mr. Thomas
Hands< no role > in Green's Court St. James's Westminster , she ask'd her Land [..]
if her Husband (the Deced) had left the Key, she said she had
not seen him go out, the Deponent then went up Stairs and found
the Door half open, and she went in, and there saw her Husband
hanging by the Closed Door with his Trace toward the Closet, she
Cried out and some Person came up and cut him down, Says she
next her Husband about 2 Hours before in the Here and followed him
home, she asked him if the wanted any thing he said no, Let him
alone, says the beleives be was Labor, Says she beleives Misfortune
is Life drove him into Despair, and that he was very uneasy in his
Mind, says she believes he must have hing himself, says he