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<p n="1470"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1258">Parish of Allhallows</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Less in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1259">Dowgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65003_date196">16th: day of August 1790</rs>
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on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1470-1">Richard Backhouse</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead</p>
<p n="1471"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1471-1">Isaac Simpson</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ518">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1471-2">William Chaplin</rs>
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of No:<lb></lb>
24 First Street Hill London Wireworker maketh Oath that<lb></lb>
a little after the hour of six in the Morning of Yesterday the 15th.<lb></lb>
instantly Dept. the deced and an <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ519">Apprentice</rs>
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of Mr. Kirby's<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
of Crooker Lane London Turner agreed to go into the River of<lb></lb>
Thomes for the purpose of bathing that they went in together<lb></lb>
at Cold. Harbour Stairs situate in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1260">Parish of Allhallows</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the Less in the Ward of Dewgate that the deced could swim<lb></lb>
very little that they had not been long in the Water when the<lb></lb>
deced having got out of his Depth appeared to be in danger<lb></lb>
of drowning that Dept. observed him sinking under the Water<lb></lb>
that he saw the deced sinking very fast nothing but in hand<lb></lb>
appearing out of the Water that Dept. and Mrs<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Kirby's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ520">Apprentice</rs>
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used their utmost endeavour to save the deced but<lb></lb>
without effect for the deced sunk quire under Water and Dept.<lb></lb>
saw nothing more of him for near half an hour after when he was<lb></lb>
taken up by some Waterman who grappled after him that<lb></lb>
they Men who tooked the deced up brot. him on Shore to Cold<lb></lb>
Harbour Stairs that a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ521">Surgeon</rs>
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was sent for that he cared his<lb></lb>
endeavours to Chestore the deced to Life but without effect for<lb></lb>
the deced never recoveredthat no person was near the deced<lb></lb>
when he first sunk under the Water</p>
<p n="1472">Sworn the 16th: day of August 1790<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1473">T:Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="1474"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1474-1">Isaac Simpson</rs>
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