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<p n="1562"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say, at the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1658">Saint Mary at Hill</rs>
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in the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1659">Billingsgate</rs>
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in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date362">22nd. day of November 1794</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1562-1">Philip Webb</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying dead</p>
<p n="1563"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1563-1">Thomas Hills</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ513">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1563-2">James Shoopshell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ514">Master</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Smack called the Adventure of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1660">Milton</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1661">County of Kent</rs>
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now lying in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1662">Billingsgate</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ515">Dock maketh</rs>
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Oath that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ516">deced</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1563-3">Philip Webb</rs>
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belonged to the said Vessel<lb></lb>
that Dept saw the deced between eight and Nine on<lb></lb>
Thursday Evening last at the Green Lettice Public House<lb></lb>
on <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1663">Billingsgate</rs>
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Quay that he was drinking Beer in the Top<lb></lb>
Room of the said House with one goe Wright a Porter<lb></lb>
that he appeared very much intoxicatedDept left him<lb></lb>
there & went to get his Supper at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1664">Blue Anchor</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1665">St Mary at Hill</rs>
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while Dept. was there he reced<lb></lb>
information that Webb had fallen over board from<lb></lb>
the said VesselDept. went to the Quay and then on<lb></lb>
board the said Vesselthat Webb was lying on the Hatches<lb></lb>
of a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Queen borough Vessel that lay alongside of<lb></lb>
Dept. Vessel. that he was all over Mud and lay insensible<lb></lb>
that he was taken into the Cabbin of Dept. Vessel and then<lb></lb>
strippedthe deced after he was stripped appeared to<lb></lb>
recover and sayed he would go to Bed he accordingly<lb></lb>
got into Bed after he was in Bed he sayed he was very cold<lb></lb>
Dept<del>continued in the Cabbin the deced</del>
put a Jacket on him: Dept. then went<lb></lb>
to Bed before<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dept went to sleep he heard the</p>
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