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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette ·

On Friday Night or Saturday Morning last, a Clergyman of the Neighbourhood of Malmesbury hanged himself at an Inn in that Place. He came to the Inn about Six o’Clock on Friday Evening, and desired the Servant to shew him his Room, as he wanted to lie down ’till Supper Time: When Supper was ready, the People of the House knocked several Times at the Chamber Door, but to no Purpose: Thinking him to be gone to Bed, they judged not proper to disturb him, but the next Morning early, going into his Room, they found him dead, with his Boots and Spurs on, hanging by the Cord of the Bell, by the Bedside, his Feet on the Ground, and his Body something bent, by which it is suppos’d he had given himself a sudden Jerk, and was immediately strangled. The People of the Inn represent him to be a good-natured, facetious Companion, but that Day he seemed to be very melancholy.