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<p n="1371"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Mary<lb></lb>
Somerset in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1206">Queenhithe</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1207">London</rs>
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aforesaid the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65003_date189">3d. day of August<lb></lb>
1790</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1371-1">Samuel Walmsley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1372"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1372-1">Charles Roberts</rs>
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of High Timber Street in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1372-2">Michael Queenhithe</rs>
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in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1208">Queenhith</rs>
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London Warehouse<lb></lb>
-<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ491">man</rs>
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maketh Oath that about four OClock on Sunday<lb></lb>
Afternoon last Deponent<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
being on Mr. Wilsons Wharf<lb></lb>
situate in the parish of Saint Michael <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1209">Queenhithe</rs>
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he saw<lb></lb>
the Legs and Posteriors of a Man in the Water within<lb></lb>
about eight Yards of the said Wharf that he apprehended<lb></lb>
the person the in the Water whose Legs and Posterior he<lb></lb>
saw was sinking under the Water and in danger of Drowning<lb></lb>
that some people then about and near the place endeavoured to<lb></lb>
assist the said Person that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Yesterday Morning<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about seven OClock Dept: saw the deceased lying dead<lb></lb>
upon some hundles on said Wharf</p>
<p n="1373">Sworn this 3d. day of August 1790<lb></lb>
before me}<lb></lb>
T: Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="1374">Roberts</p>
<p n="1375"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1375-1">James Ives</rs>
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a Lodger at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
3 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1210">Henry Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1211">Old Street Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1212">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ492">Cordwainer</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath<lb></lb>
known the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ493">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1375-3">Samuel Walmsley</rs>
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about twelve Years<lb></lb>
that he was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ494">Smith</rs>
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by Business and lodged in a Court in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1213">Golden Lane</rs>
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Middx. that about four OClock on Sunday<lb></lb>
Afternoon last Dept: and the deceased went down to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1214">some Wharf</rs>
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<lb></lb>
near the River to go into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1215">River Thames</rs>
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to Swim having<del>agreed</del>
<lb></lb>
setted a Po<obscured></obscured>
of Beer which could Swim the best that Dept.<lb></lb>
and the deceased were both intoxicated with Liquor that<lb></lb>
Dept. pulled off his Cloaths first that the deced soon followed<lb></lb>
that Dept. and the deced had not been long in the Water before<lb></lb>
Dept. found himself in danger being out of Breath he caught<lb></lb>
hold of a Rope that Dept. has no recollection what happened<lb></lb>
to the deced or himself afterwards<del>until</del>
that he recollects about<lb></lb>
five OClock some persons saying the deced had been drowned<lb></lb>
that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about Six OClock this Evening he saw the deced lying<lb></lb>
dead in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1216">Queenhithe</rs>
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Church that Dept. and the deced were in<lb></lb>
habits of Friendship.</p>
<p n="1376">Sworn this 3d. day of August 1790<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
T: Shelton Corr.}</p>
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