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October 1790
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now here lying Dead
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Thomas Linsey
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belonging to the Yarmouth Briz
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is now
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lying at the Lime
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known the deced about three weeks that he was a Mariner
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belonging to the said Briz that on a Sunday afternoon the
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deced event shore with
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some others Bays belonging to some
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said Vessel Dept. was then in Bed that the deced came down
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into where Dept. slept that the deced got into Bed that
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from his behaviour Dept. believes him to be intoxicated
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with Liquor that about ten OClock the deced got out of
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Bed Dept asked him where he was going the deced answered
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he was going to case himself that the deced went up on the
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Death and Dept. saw nothing more of the deced that Night
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in
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on Dept. and the other two Men getting out of Bed missed
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the deced that they went to the Place belonging to said Vessel
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where they usually case themselves and from the place being
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very nasty they concluded the deced had fallen over
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into
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the Water That on Wednesday Dept. heard a drowned Man was
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picked up that Dept. has seen the deced that it is the same person
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Sworn the 22d day of
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October 1790 before me}
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J. Shelton Corr.
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The mark of
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Thos.
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Linsey
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James How
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Rotherhithe
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maketh Oath
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that about two OClock on Wednesday afternoon last Dept. picked
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the deced up out of the
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near Pickle having Stairs
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in the Parish of
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that the deced had his Carland Wa
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also his
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& a pair of Drawers that the deced
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Breeches & Drawers
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were unbattoned that he did not observe any bruises on the
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deced.
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Sworn the 22d. day of
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October 1790 before me}
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T. Shelton Corr
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his
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James
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How
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