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

Informations taken this
fourteenth day of March 1789 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 John Nash< no role > lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty & County.

William Gough< no role > a Lodger to Mr. Cox in
a House in Drug Lane in the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields on the First Floor,
in his Oath saith That John Nash< no role > the Deced lodged in the
same House on the Second Floor Says that
on Thursday Night last the twelfth Instant
about a Quarter after Eleven o'Clock
Mrs. Nash came down Stairs crying and
call [..] out, saying, that she was afraid
her Husband had done some Mischief to
himself Says that he and another Lodger Mr. Wo [..]
went up, found the Deced's Room Door
unlocked, but something being against
it Depts. could not force the Doors open
but over the Door discovered Says that with a
Knife Dep [..] t. cut the Cord, and Deced
dropped down upon the Floor Mr. Nash
being with him, Says that he sent her
fo ra Doctor who came very soon, and
followed Dept. unto the Rom where Deced
lay with a Cordaboutabout his Neck
being very Cold and the Doctor Said that
Deced had been dead three or four Hours
and Dept. believes that the Deced Hanged
himself Says that the Deced was