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William Chaplin
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of No:
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24 First Street Hill London Wireworker maketh Oath that
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a little after the hour of six in the Morning of Yesterday the 15th.
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instantly Dept. the deced and an
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of Crooker Lane London Turner agreed to go into the River of
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Thomes for the purpose of bathing that they went in together
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at Cold. Harbour Stairs situate in the
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the Less in the Ward of Dewgate that the deced could swim
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very little that they had not been long in the Water when the
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deced having got out of his Depth appeared to be in danger
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of drowning that Dept. observed him sinking under the Water
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that he saw the deced sinking very fast nothing but in hand
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appearing out of the Water that Dept. and Mrs
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used their utmost endeavour to save the deced but
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without effect for the deced sunk quire under Water and Dept.
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saw nothing more of him for near half an hour after when he was
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taken up by some Waterman who grappled after him that
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they Men who tooked the deced up brot. him on Shore to Cold
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endeavours to Chestore the deced to Life but without effect for
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the deced never recoveredthat no person was near the deced
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when he first sunk under the Water
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Sworn the 16th: day of August 1790
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before me}
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T:Shelton Corr.
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