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

Informations of Witnesses taken this fourth day
of May 1764 at the Parish of St. James within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex on an
Inquisition taken on View of the Body of Thomas
Clayton< no role > lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty and
County

John Heath< no role > Servant to Mr. Thomas Gunston< no role > of Jermyn
Street Pawnbroker on his Oath saith that Yesterday Evening
between Eight and Nine O'Clock Deponent was in his
Master's Warehouse on the ten of the House, says that
John Conyers< no role > his Fellow Servant rang the Bell in the
Shop for Deponent, says that he came down, and said
John Conyers< no role > did Depot. go to see for the Deced, for he
believed that Tom (Meaning the Deced was gone to do
for himself, whereupon Depot. went and found the
Deced under the Stairs in the Dark, Says that the
Deced came out laughing, and Depot. was sent up
again soon after into the Warehouse, and after staying there
three or four Minutes Deponent came down again,
and in looking for the Deced, suspecting that he
had made away with himself which he often
said he would do in Depts. hearing Deponent discovered
Deced hanging by a small Cord fixed to an Iron
Bar over a Passage in the back part of Mr. Gunston
house, with a running Noose round the Deced's Neck,
says that he immediately called out to the Maid Servant
for a Knife, says that before [..] the Knife was brought
Depot. had lifted up the Deced and got his Neck out
of the Cord and throw'd the Deced on the Ground, Dept.
heard a rattling in the Deced's Throat, and thinking
that he was not Dead, Dept. went to fetch some Person
to Bleed the Deced, says that a Young Gentleman
belonging to Mr. Seymour an Apothecary in Jermyn
Street came immediately and endeavoured to bleed
the Deced, but he bled a few drops only and the