City and Libty
of Westmr. in
the County of
Middx}

Informations taken this
30th. September 1763 at the
Parish of Saint James within
the Liberty of Westminster on
an Inquisition on the Body of
Phebe Fellows< no role > Spinster
there lying dead.

Thomas Winstow< no role > Apprentice to Edith Munday< no role >
of Pall Mall Widow and Tallow Chandler
on his Oath Saith that between one and two
Yesterday afternoon a Gentleman a Stranger to
Dept. knocked at Mr. Gascoines Passage Door
(the said Mr. Gascoign Ledging at Dept. Mistress's
House) and Dept. saw Mr. Gascoign's Son let him
in says Mr. Gascoigne the Elder came down Stairs
and asked Dept. whether he had seen his Maid
(meaning the deced) go out, to white dept. replyed
he had not seen her and therefore did not know
says Mr. Gascoigne the Elder went up stairs
again and immediately came down, and asked Dept.
for a Poker to break open a Door, saying he
believed his Maid had hanged herself, says that
Dept. directly carried up a Poker, and Dept. endeavoured
to break open the Door of the Room wherein the
deced was Supposed to be, but he could not,
says he did not look to the Key Hole, and can't say
whether there was a Key in the Door or not
says that Dept. then went to Mr. Chapman's a
Tinman to borrow a Ladder and brot. it into
the Court at the back part of the House, and reared
it against the Window, and went up and on looking
thro' the Window Dept. discovered the deced banging
on the right hand Side of the Window, one Foot being
on a Table says that Mr. Lapper followed Dept.
up the Ladder and Dept. opened the Window and
entered the Room and was directly followed by said
Lapper, and Mr. Lapper took the deced in his Arms