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LondonDepositions of Witness taken at London
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that is to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew
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the Less in the
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1799 on view of the body of a Man christian
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Name William Sirname unknown
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now here lying Dead.
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maketh Oath that this
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Morning about ten oClock he saw the deced going along
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a Plank from a Barge to a Pile near the Shore at Priddle
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Dork Thames Street
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That the deced has a large Stone bet.
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two and three hundred Wright on his shoulders and while
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passing along the Plank he fell upon the Plank
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with his face downwards and the Stone upon him
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that the Stone then fell from him the deced got up and
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walked from the Plank to the Shore that he appeared very
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much hurt and just as he got to the shore he appeared
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to be falling but a Man near him took hold of him and
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load him away to a publick house near there
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Sworn this 8th. day of August
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1799 before me}
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Thomas
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William Elliott
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and a Lodger at No. 13 Currian
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maketh Oath that this Morning he accompained
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that her
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appeared very ill
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and in a dying state and just as
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they got to the Hospital he appeared to Deponent to depart
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this Life
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Sworn this 8th. day of August
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1799 before me}
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