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<p n="957"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1014">Saint Bartholomews Hospital</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1015">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1016">Farringdon</rs>
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without in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
the 25th: day of July 1791 on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n957-1">George Chapman</rs>
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now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="958"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n958-1">John Meadows</rs>
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of No. 35 Water Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1017">Fleet Street</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ347">Victualler</rs>
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maketh Oath that about the hour of six in the afternoon<lb></lb>
of Friday last the 22nd. instt. Dept. being then standing at his own<lb></lb>
Door in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1018">Water Lane</rs>
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aforesaid a Cart drawn by two Horses belonging<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n958-2">William Stapleton</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1019">Whitefriars</rs>
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London loaded with Slop<lb></lb>
came down Water Lane and passed Dept: that just as the Cart had<lb></lb>
passed Dept: he observed a Wooden Bench or Seat which usually<lb></lb>
stood at Depts. door fall and that the deced a little Boy Son of<lb></lb>
Mr. Chapman who lives a few Doors from Dept. and who had<lb></lb>
first before been kneeling at the Bench fell down with the<lb></lb>
Bench that the deced fell just before the near Wheel of the Cart<lb></lb>
that the driver was at the same time abreast of the Shaft Horse<lb></lb>
on the near side that Dept. immediately<obscured></obscured>
in order to find<lb></lb>
the deced up which he did but not before the near Wheel<lb></lb>
had passed over the right<del>the One of the</del>
Leg of the deced that when<lb></lb>
Dept. had taken up the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he delivered him to as<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ348">Woman</rs>
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that came up at the time that at the time the<lb></lb>
deced fell there was no person near him that the driver of the<lb></lb>
Cart was on the proper side of his Horses that the Horses were<lb></lb>
going a gentle pace as Horses usually go when loaded<lb></lb>
that the near Wheel of the Cart was so near the Cart stone<lb></lb>
as to grind against it in passing, which Depts. says the usually<lb></lb>
do in going down Water Lane, it going with a descent one<lb></lb>
towards the River and that the pavement is very narrow<lb></lb>
on the side of the Street facing Depts. house that the Driver<lb></lb>
knew nothing of anything having happened until Depts<lb></lb>
called out, when he immediately stopt his Horses<lb></lb>
that Dept. saw the deced lying dead in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1020">St. Bartholomews</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Hospital this Evening</p>
<p n="959">Sworn the 25th. day of<lb></lb>
July 1791 before me}</p>
<p n="960"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n960-1">John Meadows</rs>
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