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<p n="71">LondonDepositions of Witness taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo58">Precinct of Bride well</rs>
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Hospital in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo59">ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo60">London</rs>
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aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date21">15th. day of January<lb></lb>
1794</rs>
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on view of the Body of a Man unknown<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="72"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n72-1">Charles Price</rs>
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of No. 33 Water Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo61">Fleet Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo62">London</rs>
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Lighterman and Waterman maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that between eight and nine yesterday Morning Dept<lb></lb>
standing on a Bange lying at Pigs Quay saw something<lb></lb>
lying on the mud a stern of the Bange Dept.<del>was in Dept.</del>
<lb></lb>
having got<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Boot stock<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
hooked that Dept<lb></lb>
had so seen which proved to be the deced-Dept. went and<lb></lb>
acquainted the Officers of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo63">Bridewell Hospital</rs>
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precinct<lb></lb>
and a Mr. Randall returned with Dept. to the Barge where<lb></lb>
they found the deced lying in the Banger then-that the<lb></lb>
deced appeared to have been some time in the water-<del>that<lb></lb>
the</del>
deced had neither Breeches, Bowrers stocking or Shoes<lb></lb>
on-Dept left the deced in the Bange</p>
<p n="73">Sworn this 15th day of January 1794<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="74"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n74-1">Charles Price</rs>
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</p>
<p n="75"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n75-1">William Burrows</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ24">Lighterman</rs>
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loding at No: 4 Parish<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo64">Garden Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo65">Christ Church</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo66">County of Surrey</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that last Sunday sennight the deced whom Dept.<lb></lb>
had never seen before came to Work with Dept. in a Bange<lb></lb>
belonging to Mr. Bottomly of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo67">shoe Lane</rs>
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London Lighter man<lb></lb>
that that day on the Tuesday following the Bange being<lb></lb>
loaded with Ashes Dept. and the deced conducted the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo68">Bange</rs>
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from <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo69">Milford Lane</rs>
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where she then lay to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo70">Brentford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that the Bange having been unladen at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo71">Brentford</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
again laden with Brick, Dept and the deced conducted<lb></lb>
the Bange from <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo72">Brentford</rs>
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and on the Friday Morning<lb></lb>
about 7 Oclock secured the Barge at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo73">new River</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo74">Wharf</rs>
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in the parish of Saint Bridget als Bride-that<lb></lb>
about seven Oclock the deced went on share the Boal<lb></lb>
having gone adrift in order to recover her-that about<lb></lb>
eight OClock<del>the deced returned and the Bange having drifted<lb></lb>
off the Mudd a distance from the Wharf the deced was Higed<lb></lb>
to pull his shoes and stocking off in order to get on Brant<lb></lb>
the Bange</del>
Dept. being in one of the Craft lying along<lb></lb>
-side the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo75">New River</rs>
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Wharf halloed to the deced on bound<lb></lb>
of Dept. Bange-that the deced came out of the Cabben<lb></lb>
of the Bange<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
with only a shirt and a Red Capon<lb></lb>
Dept. asked him how he came to have the rest of his Cloaths<lb></lb>
off the deced sayed he had slipped in the Mud and</p>
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