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<lb></lb>
Deposition of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1682">Workhouse</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint John within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ688">Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1684">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Surrey the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65003_date259">22nd. day of<del>September</del>
October 1790</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1941-1">Thomas Medows</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1942"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1942-1">Thomas Linsey</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ689">Mariner</rs>
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belonging to the Yarmouth Briz<lb></lb>
whereof <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1942-2">James Hale</rs>
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is now <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ690">Master</rs>
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lying at the Lime<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Chain in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1685">River Thames</rs>
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in the parish of Saint John<lb></lb>
within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1686">the Borough</rs>
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maketh Oath that he had<lb></lb>
known the deced about three weeks that he was a Mariner<lb></lb>
belonging to the said Briz that on a Sunday afternoon the<lb></lb>
deced event shore with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
some others Bays belonging to some<lb></lb>
Vessel lying near said Briz that between the hours of seven<lb></lb>
and eight in the Evening of same day the deced returned on beard<lb></lb>
said Vessel Dept. was then in Bed that the deced came down<lb></lb>
into where Dept. slept that the deced got into Bed that<lb></lb>
from his behaviour Dept. believes him to be intoxicated<lb></lb>
with Liquor that about ten OClock the deced got out of<lb></lb>
Bed Dept asked him where he was going the deced answered<lb></lb>
he was going to case himself that the deced went up on the<lb></lb>
Death and Dept. saw nothing more of the deced that Night<lb></lb>
that<obscured></obscured>
other Men slept in the same place with the Dept. and<lb></lb>
deced that about seven OClock the next Morning, Monday the<lb></lb>
in<obscured></obscured>
on Dept. and the other two Men getting out of Bed missed<lb></lb>
the deced that they went to the Place belonging to said Vessel<lb></lb>
where they usually case themselves and from the place being<lb></lb>
very nasty they concluded the deced had fallen over<obscured></obscured>
into<lb></lb>
the Water That on Wednesday Dept. heard a drowned Man was<lb></lb>
picked up that Dept. has seen the deced that it is the same person</p>
<p n="1943"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sworn the 22d day of<lb></lb>
October 1790 before me}</note>
<lb></lb>
J. Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="1944">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1944-1">Thos.<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Linsey</rs>
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<p n="1945"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1945-1">James How</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1688">Cherry Garden Street</rs>
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in Parish Saint Mary<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1689">Rotherhithe</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1690">County of Surrey</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ691">Fisherman</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that about two OClock on Wednesday afternoon last Dept. picked<lb></lb>
the deced up out of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1691">River Thames</rs>
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near Pickle having Stairs<lb></lb>
in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1692">Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that the deced had his Carland Wa<obscured></obscured>
also his <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65003_geo1693">Breeches</rs>
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<lb></lb>
& a pair of Drawers that the deced <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65003_occ692">Breeches & Drawers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
were unbattoned that he did not observe any bruises on the<lb></lb>
deced.</p>
<p n="1946"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sworn the 22d. day of<lb></lb>
October 1790 before me}</note>
<lb></lb>
T. Shelton Corr</p>
<p n="1947">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65003_n1947-1">James<figure rend="mark"></figure>
How</rs>
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<lb></lb>
mark</p>
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