Borough of Southwark
to wit}
Depositions of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Saint John within the Borough
of Southwark the 23d. day of August
1788 on View of the Body of Thomas
Billingham then and there lying
Dead.

George Purkess< no role > of No. 78 Freeschool Street parish of
Saint John Southwark Shopkeeper maketh Oath and
saith about 11 Oclock Yesterday Morning he went
down to Pickle Herring Stairs in the said parish
that when he came down to said Stairs he saw a
Man laying on the Gravel with a Handkerchief
over his afore that [..] the deced was put
into a shell brought there for that purpose and
conveyed to the Bonehouse of said parishthat when
Dept. first went down to the deced he was quite
dead [..] his Clothes quite wet and he appeared
as if he had been drowned

George Purkiss< no role >

Sworn before me this
23d. day of August 1788}
T: Shelton
Corr.