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15th. day of January
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1794
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on view of the Body of a Man unknown
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now here lying Dead.
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Charles Price
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of No. 33 Water Lane
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Lighterman and Waterman maketh Oath
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that between eight and nine yesterday Morning Dept
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standing on a Bange lying at Pigs Quay saw something
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lying on the mud a stern of the Bange Dept.
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was in Dept.
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having got
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a Boot stock
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hooked that Dept
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had so seen which proved to be the deced-Dept. went and
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acquainted the Officers of
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precinct
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and a Mr. Randall returned with Dept. to the Barge where
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they found the deced lying in the Banger then-that the
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deced appeared to have been some time in the water-
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that
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the
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deced had neither Breeches, Bowrers stocking or Shoes
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on-Dept left the deced in the Bange
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Sworn this 15th day of January 1794
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before me}
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maketh
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Oath that last Sunday sennight the deced whom Dept.
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had never seen before came to Work with Dept. in a Bange
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belonging to Mr. Bottomly of
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London Lighter man
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that that day on the Tuesday following the Bange being
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loaded with Ashes Dept. and the deced conducted the
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where she then lay to
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that the Bange having been unladen at
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and
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again laden with Brick, Dept and the deced conducted
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the Bange from
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and on the Friday Morning
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about 7 Oclock secured the Barge at the
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in the parish of Saint Bridget als Bride-that
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about seven Oclock the deced went on share the Boal
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having gone adrift in order to recover her-that about
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eight OClock
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the deced returned and the Bange having drifted
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off the Mudd a distance from the Wharf the deced was Higed
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to pull his shoes and stocking off in order to get on Brant
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the Bange
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Dept. being in one of the Craft lying along
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Wharf halloed to the deced on bound
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of Dept. Bange-that the deced came out of the Cabben
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of the Bange
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with only a shirt and a Red Capon
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Dept. asked him how he came to have the rest of his Cloaths
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off the deced sayed he had slipped in the Mud and
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