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LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London
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that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Mary
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Somerset in the Ward of Queen with in
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aforesaid the
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21st. day of January
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1794
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on view of the Body of
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John Roper
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now here lying Dead
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Richard Casely
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a Private in the 2nd. Batatin of
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the 1st. Regt. of Guards and now quartered at the
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Spread Egle Millbank side
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maketh
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Oath that he hath known the
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John Roper
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about
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fourteen years that he was a Foreman to Mr Curtis
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of Crescent
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place Bridge Street
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Rag
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Merchant
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-that yesterday the deced, Dept. and one Smith
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a Labour were employed
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in a Warehouse
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two
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Story high belong to one Mr. Wilson and situate on Brook's
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in the parish of Saint Mary Somerset that
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about Eleven O'Clock the deced Dept and Smith had weighed two Bags of Rags
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from a Cart and under oath into the Warehouse-that they
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placed one Bag with in the Wharehouse the other remaining
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a little distance from the step of the Warehouse Door-that
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the deced
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and desired Dept. to go for
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the Fruck-that the deced then stood
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with
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his Feet upon the Threshold of the Door his Back
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towards
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and his face fronting the Door-that
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the Bag fell against the deced Legs and knocked his feet
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out of the Door that the deced is falling turned round and
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with a took he had in his hand hooked the Bag but the Bag in
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giving way the deced fell
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from the Warehouse
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Door-Dept. looked down and saw the deced lying on his
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Side upon the Pavement on the Wharf near the Cart Wheel
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Dept. went after a
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Surgeon
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who returned with Dept that
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the deced lay in the same situate in
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and some Blood
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come from the deceds Ears and Month
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that
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the and was quite
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insensible and upon further examination found him quite
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Dead.
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Sworn this 21st. day of January
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1794 before me}
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his
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Richard
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Casely
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Mark.
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