London Deposition of Witnesses taken at
London that is to say at the parish of
Saint Clement Eastcheap in the ward
of Candlewick in London aforesaid
this 15th: day of August 1797 on view of
the body of John Sharpness< no role > now here
lying Dead

Joseph Wood< no role > a Servant to Messrs. Lucas & spencer of
London Oil Merchants but now residing with his Mother
of Red Bull yard Thames Street maketh Oath that
between six and seven on Sunday aftnoon last Dept. being
bathing off Alhallows Stairs two Men passing by in a
Boat sayed a Boy was drowned-that [..] a person
telling Dept. the person drowned was off Red Bull
Wharf Dept. went into the water off Red Bull wharf
and upon going under the water Dept. caught hold of the
[..] the deced & brought him to [..] a Boat
lying near there that some persons brought the deced
on Shore to Red Bull Wharf -that the deced was taken
from thence to the old Swan Public House-that means
were tried to recover the deced but without effect

Sworn this 15th: day of August
1797 before me}

his
Joseph [mark] Wood< no role >
Mark