LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishops-
-gate without in London aforesaid the
24th day of January 1794 on view of the
Body of Thomas Haslam< no role > now here lying
Dead

Daniel Vizard< no role > of No. 2 Savage Court Middlegate Street
Bishopogate Street London Glazier maketh Oath that the hath
known the deced Thomas Haslam< no role > above twenty year-that
between six and seven in the Evening of Tuesday last Dept. going
into the Ball Public House in Devonshire Street he saw the
deced sitting in the Tap Room of that House that soon after the
deced went to the Bar and had a Glass of Gin at the request of a
Mr. Donnovan who wished to treat him the deced-that Donnavan
sayed the deced has last him one shilling and nine pence one
time before to make him Drunk but could not but that then
he the deced should have as much as he could drink and he
Donnovan would pay for it-that Donnovan then ordered half
a pint of Gin to be taken to the deced who was sitting down-that half
a pint of Gin [..] and als lass was placed before the deced
who drank it at his Leisure-that two then half pint were in
placed before the deced who drank them also at his Leisure
and eat Bread at the same timeuponthat the deced was not
above twenty Minutes drinking the three half Pints of Gin
Dept. then exportulated with Donnovan for letting the deced
have so much upon which Donnovan sayed Dann him I dont
force it upon but he will drink it and if he will I will pay
for as much as he will drink the deced then called for another
half Pint but Mr. Price the Landlord who was then in the
Bar sayed Damn him (meang the deced) shall have no more
the deced did not appear much intoxicated with the Liquor
he had drank Dept. has often see him much worse as the
deced was very much addicted to drinking-that about ½
past seven Dept. found the deced was gone and afterwards
he understood from Isaac Newcom< no role > the deced had gone home

Sworn this 24th day of January
1794 before me}

Daniel Vizard< no role >