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Information taken this Twenty second day
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March 1766 at the
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saith That yesterday about two o'Clock in the Afternoon
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Dept. was at Work at the Chelsea Waterworks in the
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upon the Mud with her face downwards on the outside
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the Tide then Ebbed and the Deced was left there by the
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returned there in about half and hour when he found
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