Southwark

Informations of Witnesses taken at
the parish of Saint John within the Borough
of Southwark in the County of Surrey on
the 6th day of July 1792 on view of the
Body of Florence Driscall< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. now here lying dead.

Thomas Shott of the Rose & Crown Victualling
house Chad Thames in the parish of Saint John within
the Brough of Southwark in the County of Surrey
Victualler maketh Oath that between the hours of
five and six in the afternoon of Wednesday last
Dept. heard the deceds father who had just before
been in the Tap Room of Dept. house which fronted
the River cry out my Boy or Child is overboard
Dept. immediately looked out of the Tap Room
Window and saw the deced who was Servant to
Dept. Struggling in the Water that Dept. the father
of the deced and some other persons immediately
went out of the Top Room to the Stairs and got into
some Boats lying there in order to save the deced
but without effect that the deced sank under
the Water that in about three hour after the
deced [..] was taken up as Dept. understood that he
has seen the deced this afternoon lying Dead in his
Father's house< no role >

Thos Shott

Sworn the 6th day of
July 1792 before me}