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<p n="952"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo794">Southwark</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
parish of Saint Thomas within the<lb></lb>
Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo795">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Surrey the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65003_date134">25th. day of May 1790</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n952-1">John Liddell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there lying dead.</p>
<p n="953"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n953-1">Stephen Syeds</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ346">Master</rs>
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of the Mexander Brig of<lb></lb>
Duntar now lying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo796">River Thames</rs>
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maketh oath that<lb></lb>
on the 8th. instant the said Brig was in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo797">Yarmouth Roads</rs>
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on her<lb></lb>
Voyage to London That off Yarmouth Dept observed the Speedy<lb></lb>
Sloop of War tringing several Vessells too that were also on their<lb></lb>
Voyage to London, upon which Dept lewered both of is top Gallant<lb></lb>
Sails & prepared to bring too also, expects to be bro's tod as well<lb></lb>
as the other Vessels-The May Tails were Lanled down & the<lb></lb>
fore Sail was hauling up<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
when a Gun was fired<lb></lb>
from the Sloop which carried away the Starboard fore shroud<lb></lb>
struck the foreman, and wounded the deced who was Lanling the<lb></lb>
Larboard fore buntling up, and carried away a timber head<lb></lb>
on the forecastle of the larboard side. That the Vessel Love tod<lb></lb>
immedy. and the Sloop of Wars beat boarded him and took one<lb></lb>
man out of the Vessel Dept requested the officer in the Sloops boat<lb></lb>
to take the deced on board the Slopp that his wound my lit be dressed<lb></lb>
which he was willing to do but the deced refused to go-That the<lb></lb>
Sloops beat then quitted Depts. Vessel and Dept made the best<lb></lb>
of his was to London-Says the deced was wounded in his eight<lb></lb>
Thigh-That Dept dressed the deceds wounds as well as he could<lb></lb>
The next day the Vessell arrived in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo798">River Thames</rs>
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and the deced<lb></lb>
was taken to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo799">Saint Thomas's Hospital</rs>
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where he remained until<lb></lb>
last Sunday when he died. Dept says his possible the Gun might<lb></lb>
hans fire &<del>the</del>
Depth. Vessel shoots. a' head might to the reason of<lb></lb>
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the Gun striks the vessel & wounds. the deced.</p>
<p n="954">Sworn the 25th. day of May 1790<lb></lb>
before me T. Shelton Corr}</p>
<p n="955"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n955-1">Stephen Syeds</rs>
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