Southwark Deposition of a Witness taken at London
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint John
within the Borough of Southwark in the County
of Surrey this 21st. day of May 1795 on view of
the Body of a Man unknown now here
lying Dead.

George Perkis< no role > of No. 78 Free school Street in the part
of Saint John with in the Borough of Southwark in the
County of Surrey Shopkeeper maketh Oath that bed
six & seven OClock on Tuesday Night last Dept. being
at [..] Davis's Wharf Potters Fields saw the
deced in the Water facing Mr Davis's Wharf that a
Man in a Wherry had got hold of the deced with
a Boat hook & was to wing him on there. Dept went
to Barton the Grave Digger of Saint John's Parish
& informed of him of it-soon after Dept. Barton &
ansr. Man went with a Shell to Master Ways near
Horsley down Stairs in St. John Parish-that they
found the deced lying on the Cause way that they put
him into the spell that it proved to be a Man
had a Jacket & Bowers on which were very Maddy
appeared to have been a consider able time under
Water-All the Fleet & Skin intirely eaten away from
his Head & handly any thing but the care Scull left
Dept. Barton & the other Man conveyed the deced
to the Bone in the Church Yard of Saint John's parish where he
now lies.

Sworn this 21st. day of May
1795 before me}

Geo Purkiss< no role >