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Image 119 of 24814th August 1777


person asking the Driver of the said loaded Cart
how he could be so Careless as not to attend the said
Cart or words to that Effect he answered down the
Maccoroni (weaving the deceased as Deponent apprehended) what Business had he between one
Coal Carts.

Jal Kirk

Sworn the 14th. day of August 1777
before me}
Tho: Beach< no role > [..] .

Thomas North< no role > of Lombard Street in
White Fryars Precinct London Ticket Porter
on his Oath saith that Yesterday in the Afternoon as
Dept. was passing a long fleet street towards the
now Market he saw a man unknown to Dept.
drawing the deced to the foot way who was lying upon the Pavemt.
in the sd. Street between Single Inn and Ram
Alley clare to the Off Wheel of or Cartloadedbut
whether the came was loaded or not or by what
Number of Horses the same was drawn Dept. knows
not) appearing to Dept. as if he had been ran over
by the sd. Cart; that Dept. and andr. man unknown
to Dept. took the deced up and carried him to Ram
Alley aforesd. and put him upon a Chair, that the deced
cried out of my God; that there upon a Surgeon was
immediately sent to who bled him, but he bled but
little and Dept. stayed with him for abt. the Spare
of forty Minutes when he died; and Dept. says that
when he and the other man took the deced up his
Right Leg was bloody and his last Breast appeared
to be very much buried

Thos. North< no role >

Sworn the 14th. day of August 1777
before me}
Tho: Beach< no role > Corn.

William Clarke< no role > Coal Trounger lodging with
Cooper of White Fryers Precinct Victualler
on his Oath saith that yesterday in the Afternoon abt.
adverter after the Hour of 4th Dept. was following a
Cart loaded with Coalsgoing upfrom White Fryers
aforesd. to North Street Westminster in Order to laying
the rd. Coals where delivered at a Person & House in
Northstreet aforesaid and that [..] in Fleet street
the deced [..] was on Horseback and coming down
Fleet Street towards St. Pauls the sd. Cart which was




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