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the 25th: day of July 1791 on view of the body of
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now here lying Dead
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maketh Oath that about the hour of six in the afternoon
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of Friday last the 22nd. instt. Dept. being then standing at his own
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aforesaid a Cart drawn by two Horses belonging
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London loaded with Slop
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came down Water Lane and passed Dept: that just as the Cart had
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passed Dept: he observed a Wooden Bench or Seat which usually
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stood at Depts. door fall and that the deced a little Boy Son of
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Mr. Chapman who lives a few Doors from Dept. and who had
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first before been kneeling at the Bench fell down with the
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Bench that the deced fell just before the near Wheel of the Cart
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that the driver was at the same time abreast of the Shaft Horse
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on the near side that Dept. immediately
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in order to find
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the deced up which he did but not before the near Wheel
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had passed over the right
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the One of the
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he delivered him to as
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that came up at the time that at the time the
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deced fell there was no person near him that the driver of the
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Cart was on the proper side of his Horses that the Horses were
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going a gentle pace as Horses usually go when loaded
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that the near Wheel of the Cart was so near the Cart stone
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as to grind against it in passing, which Depts. says the usually
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towards the River and that the pavement is very narrow
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on the side of the Street facing Depts. house that the Driver
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knew nothing of anything having happened until Depts
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called out, when he immediately stopt his Horses
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that Dept. saw the deced lying dead in
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Hospital this Evening
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Sworn the 25th. day of
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