London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at
London that is to say, at the Parish of
Saint Martin Orgars in the Ward of
Bridge in London aforesaid this 14th.
day of a April 1795 on view of the Body
of Thomas Ampes< no role > now here Lying
Dead

John Metcalf< no role > a Lighterman ladging at Mr. Hill a
Waterman Thomas Street< no role > Bank side Southwark maketh
Oath that between eight and Nine in the Morning of Sunday
last Dept. being near the London Bridge Water works was
called to by a Mr. Fenn who sayed something was in
the Water near the Water works, & wished Dept. to see what
it was Dept. applied to Edward Eglintine< no role > an Apprentice
to Mr. Drew of No.1 Red Bull Yard London Lightman
& he & Eglintine went to the Water works on the London
side of London Bridge - and found the deced lying in the
Water between me of the Piles & the shore Dept. and
Eglintine get him out of the Water and conveyed him
to between Stairs where they landed him - Dept.
has known the deced about five Years - That he kept
a Coal shed at Red Crop Wharf - That he appeared
to have been several Days under Water and Dept.
understood the deced had been missing eight weeks

Sworn this 14th. April 1795
before me}

John Metcalf< no role >