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<p n="2497"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London and<lb></lb>
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint John within the Town and<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65002_occ912">Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo2089">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Surrey the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65002_date326">8th: day of December 1789</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n2497-1">James Murray</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
Dead</p>
<p n="2498"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n2498-1">Peter Lacey</rs>
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of the three Tuns Tosley street<lb></lb>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n2498-2">James Murray</rs>
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between seven or eight Months-that<lb></lb>
on Tuesday the 1st day of November last Dept.<del>the</del>
and<lb></lb>
deced having been with some other persons amongst<lb></lb>
whom was the deceds Wife on board of the Tryal<lb></lb>
Sloop then laying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo2090">River Thames</rs>
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near Horsley<lb></lb>
Down Stairs & that Dept. the deced and three Lads<lb></lb>
belonging to said Sloop went on Shore to Depts. house<lb></lb>
in order to get some Beer and other necessarys the<lb></lb>
Master of the said Sloop wished them to go for-that<lb></lb>
on their Return to the said Vessel deced, Dept. and<lb></lb>
two of said Lads the other having been left behind<lb></lb>
being then in a Ssmall Boat belonging to said Vessel<lb></lb>
and along side of the said Vessel the deced being<lb></lb>
standing on the<del>said</del>
side of the said Boat endeavoured to<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
give some Knives and Forks they had brought<lb></lb>
from Depts. house to Depts. Wife but the Boat not<lb></lb>
being near enough he could not reach that he<lb></lb>
turned himself round with his back towards the<lb></lb>
said Vessel in order to get the Boat neares but the<lb></lb>
tide then running very strong forced the Boat<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Fasther from the Vessel and by some means the deced<lb></lb>
fell between the Boat and the Vessel into the Water<lb></lb>
and Dept. never saw nothing of him until Yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning when he saw him lying dead at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo2091">Horsley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
down<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Stairs in said parish of Saint John.</p>
<p n="2499">Sworn the 8 Decer 1789 before me<lb></lb>
T. Shelton Corr.</p>
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