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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Mary
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1790
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on view of the Body of
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Samuel Walmsley
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then and there lying dead.
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Charles Roberts
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of High Timber Street in the Parish of Saint
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Michael Queenhithe
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in the Ward of
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Queenhith
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maketh Oath that about four OClock on Sunday
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Afternoon last Deponent
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being on Mr. Wilsons Wharf
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situate in the parish of Saint Michael
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he saw
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the Legs and Posteriors of a Man in the Water within
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about eight Yards of the said Wharf that he apprehended
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the person the in the Water whose Legs and Posterior he
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saw was sinking under the Water and in danger of Drowning
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that some people then about and near the place endeavoured to
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assist the said Person that
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Yesterday Morning
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about seven OClock Dept: saw the deceased lying dead
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upon some hundles on said Wharf
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Sworn this 3d. day of August 1790
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before me}
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T: Shelton Corr.
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Roberts
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a Lodger at
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in the
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maketh Oath that he hath
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known the
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deced
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Samuel Walmsley
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about twelve Years
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that he was a
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Smith
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by Business and lodged in a Court in
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Golden Lane
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Middx. that about four OClock on Sunday
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Afternoon last Dept: and the deceased went down to
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some Wharf
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near the River to go into the
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River Thames
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to Swim having
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agreed
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setted a Po
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of Beer which could Swim the best that Dept.
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and the deceased were both intoxicated with Liquor that
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Dept. pulled off his Cloaths first that the deced soon followed
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that Dept. and the deced had not been long in the Water before
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Dept. found himself in danger being out of Breath he caught
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hold of a Rope that Dept. has no recollection what happened
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to the deced or himself afterwards
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until
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that he recollects about
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five OClock some persons saying the deced had been drowned
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that
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about Six OClock this Evening he saw the deced lying
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dead in
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Church that Dept. and the deced were in
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habits of Friendship.
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Sworn this 3d. day of August 1790
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before me
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T: Shelton Corr.}
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