City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex

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Informations taken this Ninth day of Jany.
1769 at the Parish of St. James within the Liberty
of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex on an
Inquisition touching the Death of John Stamps< no role >
lying dead in the sad Parish Liberty and County.

James Wilde< no role > Servant to Mr. John Carver< no role > of Silver Street
in the Parish of St. James Westmr . Stable keeper on his Oath
saith That the Deced John Stamps about four Year's ago was
Hostler to said Mr. Corver, and Dept. was then Holper, and
is now in the same Capacity, Says that Deced left Mr. Carver
and Dept. has not seen him for about six months last past
until this Morning, when Dept. was going into the Privy
or Necessary House within Mr. Carver's Yard in Silver Street
about a Quarter before Seven o'Clockthis Morning,Says
that on Pushing the Necessary Door open, the Door Shut [..]
upon which he called out who is there and having no Answer, he called
Mr. Carver's Hostler who went with Dept. to the Necessary
House, and having a Candle, Dept. pushed open the Door and
saw the Deced hanging by a Cord tied to one of the Rasters
of said Necessary House and around the Deced's Neck, Says
that said Hostler with a Knife out the Cord by which Deced was
hanging, and he was carried into a Coach house in said Yard
the Deced being dead, his Face and Hands being quite Cold
and appeared to Depont. to have been Dead some time, Says
that he lay last Night in said Stable Yard, and heard no
Noise or Disturbance there, and believes that the Deced
hanged himself.

James Wilde< no role >

Gabriel Seabright< no role > Hostler to Mr. Carver on his Oath saith
That James Wilde< no role > fetched him this Morning to the Necessary house
in Mr. Carver's Yard, saying that there was Somebody there, upon which
he went with Wilde, having a Candle lighted and on pushing open
the Necessary house Door Dept. saw the Deced hanging by a Cord
fixed around the Deced's Neck and to one of the Rafters in
said House, Says that he was Dead, and Cold, and Dept, cut
the Cord, and believes that Deced hanged himself.

Gabriel Seabright< no role >