Southwark

Deposition of Witnesses taken at
the Workhouse of Saint Olave situate
in the Parish of Saint John within the
Borough of Southwark in the County of
Surrey the 22nd. day ofSeptemberOctober 1790
on view of the Body of Thomas Medows< no role >
now here lying Dead

Thomas Linsey< no role > a Mariner belonging to the Yarmouth Briz
whereof James Hale< no role > is now Master lying at the Lime
[..] Chain in the River Thames in the parish of Saint John
within the Borough of Southwark maketh Oath that he had
known the deced about three weeks that he was a Mariner
belonging to the said Briz that on a Sunday afternoon the
deced event shore with [..] some others Bays belonging to some
Vessel lying near said Briz that between the hours of seven
and eight in the Evening of same day the deced returned on beard
said Vessel Dept. was then in Bed that the deced came down
into where Dept. slept that the deced got into Bed that
from his behaviour Dept. believes him to be intoxicated
with Liquor that about ten OClock the deced got out of
Bed Dept asked him where he was going the deced answered
he was going to case himself that the deced went up on the
Death and Dept. saw nothing more of the deced that Night
that [..] other Men slept in the same place with the Dept. and
deced that about seven OClock the next Morning, Monday the
in [..] on Dept. and the other two Men getting out of Bed missed
the deced that they went to the Place belonging to said Vessel
where they usually case themselves and from the place being
very nasty they concluded the deced had fallen over [..] into
the Water That on Wednesday Dept. heard a drowned Man was
picked up that Dept. has seen the deced that it is the same person

Sworn the 22d day of
October 1790 before me}

J. Shelton Corr.

The mark of
Thos. [mark] Linsey< no role >

James How< no role > of Cherry Garden Street in Parish Saint Mary
Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey Fisherman maketh Oath
that about two OClock on Wednesday afternoon last Dept. picked
the deced up out of the River Thames near Pickle having Stairs
in the Parish of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark
that the deced had his Carland Wa [..] also his Breeches
& a pair of Drawers that the deced Breeches & Drawers
were unbattoned that he did not observe any bruises on the
deced.

Sworn the 22d. day of
October 1790 before me}

T. Shelton Corr

his
James [mark] How< no role >
mark