LondonDepositions of Witness taken at London
that is to say, at the Precinct of Bride well
Hospital in the ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid this 15th. day of January
1794 on view of the Body of a Man unknown
now here lying Dead.

Charles Price< no role > of No. 33 Water Lane Fleet Street
London Lighterman and Waterman maketh Oath
that between eight and nine yesterday Morning Dept
standing on a Bange lying at Pigs Quay saw something
lying on the mud a stern of the Bange Dept.was in Dept.
having got [..] a Boot stock [..] hooked that Dept
had so seen which proved to be the deced-Dept. went and
acquainted the Officers of Bridewell Hospital precinct
and a Mr. Randall returned with Dept. to the Barge where
they found the deced lying in the Banger then-that the
deced appeared to have been some time in the water-that
thedeced had neither Breeches, Bowrers stocking or Shoes
on-Dept left the deced in the Bange

Sworn this 15th day of January 1794
before me}

Charles Price< no role >

William Burrows< no role > a Lighterman loding at No: 4 Parish
Garden Lane Christ Church in the County of Surrey maketh
Oath that last Sunday sennight the deced whom Dept.
had never seen before came to Work with Dept. in a Bange
belonging to Mr. Bottomly of shoe Lane London Lighter man
that that day on the Tuesday following the Bange being
loaded with Ashes Dept. and the deced conducted the
Bange from Milford Lane where she then lay to Brentford
that the Bange having been unladen at Brentford and
again laden with Brick, Dept and the deced conducted
the Bange from Brentford and on the Friday Morning
about 7 Oclock secured the Barge at the new River
Wharf in the parish of Saint Bridget als Bride-that
about seven Oclock the deced went on share the Boal
having gone adrift in order to recover her-that about
eight OClockthe deced returned and the Bange having drifted
off the Mudd a distance from the Wharf the deced was Higed
to pull his shoes and stocking off in order to get on Brant
the BangeDept. being in one of the Craft lying along
-side the New River Wharf halloed to the deced on bound
of Dept. Bange-that the deced came out of the Cabben
of the Bange [..] with only a shirt and a Red Capon
Dept. asked him how he came to have the rest of his Cloaths
off the deced sayed he had slipped in the Mud and