London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at
London that is to say, at the Parish of
Saint Mitchael Queenhithe in the Ward
of Queenhithe in London aforesaid this
16th day of April 1795 on view of the
Body of Thomas Plumridge< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. now here
lying Dead

James Clark< no role > a Labourer Lodging at the Rummer
Labour & Vain Hill London maketh Oath that about
Ten O Clock on Tuesday Night last Dept. being on Queenhithe
Wharf heard somebody had fallen over board - Dept. went
to Queenhithe Dock & form thence to the Stair & then to
some Craft lying opposite the Stairs - that Dept. one Benjn.
May< no role > & one Francis Mortimer< no role > got into a Punt - that May
put a Hitcher or Boothook into the Water & Hooked held of
the deced got him into the Punt & from thence to the
Stairs. That he was then taken to the Kings Arms Public
Home Queenhithe Stairs. Dept. understood the deced had
fallen into the Water a few Minutes before - that Dept.
left the deced at the Kings Arms - Dept. has known the
deced about five Years - that he was a Barge Man &
sailed in a Barge called the Grey hound belonging to a
John Biggs< no role > of Reading - That th Barge was then lying
at the Stairs at Queenhithe Dock.

Sworn this 16th day of April
1795 before me}

his
James [mark] Clark< no role >
Mark