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London</note>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-1">John Scott</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo371">Chipping Wycomb</rs>
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in the County of Bucks paper maker and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-2">Moses Mossenton</rs>
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of Great Marlow in the County aforesaid Bargeman severally<lb></lb>
make oath and say And first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-3">John Scott</rs>
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for himself saith that on the<del>sixteenth</del>
seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of March last Eighty two <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ179">Couples of paper</rs>
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called pound and half pound value<lb></lb>
eighteen pounds nineteen shillings, one hundred and fifty four bundles of other<lb></lb>
paper called small hand value fifty pounds one shillings, one hundred and forty<lb></lb>
three bundles of other paper called Middle Land value Sixty pounds fifteen<lb></lb>
Shillings and six pence and twenty bundles of other paper called Crown Tissue<lb></lb>
value Eight pounds the property of this Deponent and of which this Deponent<lb></lb>
was the maker was put on board a certain Barge belonging to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-4">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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Bargemaster then <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo372">lying on the River Thames</rs>
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at Wooburn in the said County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo373">Bucks</rs>
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in Order to be Transported from thence on account of this Deponent to<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo374">City of London</rs>
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St. not this Deponent Jones Mossenton for himself saith<lb></lb>
that the paper abovementioned was laden on board the said Barge of the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-5">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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(to whom this Deponent then was and now is Servant<lb></lb>
as Costbearer on board the said Barge) on the said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
seventeenth day of<lb></lb>
March last And this Deponent further saith that on the said Seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of the said month of March the said Barge proceeded from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo375">Woburn</rs>
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aforesaid on her Voyage to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo376">City of London</rs>
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And that in the course of<lb></lb>
her said Voyage between the hours of eight and nine in the Evenings<lb></lb>
of the eighteenth day of March last (it being at that time very dark night)<lb></lb>
the said Barge then having the said paper on board as aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally Ran against one of the files of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo377">Black Friars Bridge</rs>
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by means whereof the said Barge was Sunk in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo378">River Thames</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo379">City of London</rs>
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and great part of the aforesaid paper of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n361-6">John Scott</rs>
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was thereby unfortunately lost and the other<lb></lb>
remaining</p>
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