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

Informations taken this Fifth day of
August 1765 at the Parish of St. James within
the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex
on an Inquisition to her on View of the Body of
Mary Maclean lying Dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Thomas Bucknell< no role > of [..] little Poultney Street
in the Parish of St. James within the Liberty of Westmr.
Baker on his Oath saith that Mary Maclean< no role > the Deced has
lodged with this Dept. since Christmas last, in a
two pair of Stairs Room, Says that Mrs. Adams
another Lodger on the same Floor with Deced came to
Deponent yesterday about Eleven o'Clock, and said
that the Deced had not been some for some time that she
had looked into Deced's Room thro Lattices over the
Room Door and said Deceds Stays and some of her
Cloaths lye upon the Bed, and was afraid that she has
made away with herself, and desired Dept. to come
up and open the Door upon which Dept. went up
and found the Door Locked, Says that he with his
Hand forced open the Door and went unto the Room
and was followed by Mr. Adams and his Wife Says
that he observed the Deced lying on the Floor in a
Closet in her Room, almost double Says that the Deced
was Deced, and that one End of a small Cord was
fastend about her Neck, quite tight, and the other
End loose, Says that he saw an Iron book in the
wainscott over the Place where he found the Deced, that
the Hook was strained and bent downwards, and Dept.
believes that she hung herself by the Cord over that Hook
Says that he found the Key of Deced's Room Door upon
the Table in Deced's Room

Thos: Bucknell< no role >