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in the County of Bucks paper maker and
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of Great Marlow in the County aforesaid Bargeman severally
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make oath and say And first the said
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John Scott
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for himself saith that on the
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seventeenth
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day of March last Eighty two
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called pound and half pound value
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eighteen pounds nineteen shillings, one hundred and fifty four bundles of other
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paper called small hand value fifty pounds one shillings, one hundred and forty
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three bundles of other paper called Middle Land value Sixty pounds fifteen
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Shillings and six pence and twenty bundles of other paper called Crown Tissue
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value Eight pounds the property of this Deponent and of which this Deponent
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was the maker was put on board a certain Barge belonging to
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Bargemaster then
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lying on the River Thames
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at Wooburn in the said County of
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in Order to be Transported from thence on account of this Deponent to
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St. not this Deponent Jones Mossenton for himself saith
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that the paper abovementioned was laden on board the said Barge of the said
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(to whom this Deponent then was and now is Servant
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as Costbearer on board the said Barge) on the said
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seventeenth day of
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March last And this Deponent further saith that on the said Seventeenth
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day of the said month of March the said Barge proceeded from
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aforesaid on her Voyage to the
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And that in the course of
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her said Voyage between the hours of eight and nine in the Evenings
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of the eighteenth day of March last (it being at that time very dark night)
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the said Barge then having the said paper on board as aforesaid
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by means whereof the said Barge was Sunk in the
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within the
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and great part of the aforesaid paper of
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the said
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was thereby unfortunately lost and the other
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