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<p n="582"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo641">London</rs>
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Deposition of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say, at the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo642">Allhallows Barking</rs>
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in the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo643">Tower in London</rs>
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aforesaid the 5th day<lb></lb>
of May 1792 on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n582-1">Joseph Brass</rs>
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now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="583"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n583-1">John Warford</rs>
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of No. 6 little Ormond yard Saint George<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo644">the Martyr</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo645">Queen Square</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo646">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Excise Watchman maketh Oath that about the hour<lb></lb>
of twelve in the Night of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
day last Dept. saw the<lb></lb>
deced on Brewers Quay in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo647">parish of Allhallows</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo648">Barking</rs>
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that he was a <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo649">Custom house</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ242">Watchman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
that he appeared very much agitated and struck a Table<lb></lb>
on the Key with his Stick and made a great Noise Dept<lb></lb>
remonstrated with the deced on his making such a Noise<lb></lb>
and asked him what was the matter the deced sayed he<lb></lb>
had been drunk for three days and three Nights and<lb></lb>
could not get himself sober Dept. told the deced he ought<lb></lb>
to sleep<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and drink less and then he would got sober<lb></lb>
but Whether the deced was then intoxicated Dept. cannot<lb></lb>
say having never known him before that in about ten<lb></lb>
Minutes after, One of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ243">Surveyors of the Customs</rs>
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came on the<lb></lb>
Quay and asked if all was well the deced answered yes<lb></lb>
very rationally that immediately after the Surveyor went<lb></lb>
away and Dept. went on his Duty on board a Craft laying<lb></lb>
alongside the said Quay leaving the deced on the Quay<lb></lb>
that about two OClock Dept. heard a very un common Noise<lb></lb>
of some person and looking<del>look</del>
up from the Craft he was in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
he hallowed out who is there but reced no answer that<lb></lb>
in about ten Minutes after Dept. heard something fall<lb></lb>
into the Water between the Vessel Dept. was in and the Key<lb></lb>
Dept. immediately went upon Deck and some person cryed<lb></lb>
out for help saying a Man is in the Water Dept. looked<lb></lb>
into the Water between the Craft he was in & the Key and<lb></lb>
saw something struggling in the Water Dept. immediately<lb></lb>
have a Rope into the Water-that a person came and went<lb></lb>
down a Ladder (which Dept. placed alongside the craft for that<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
) and caught hold of the deced and kept him above<lb></lb>
Water that as soon as possible Dept. and some other persons<lb></lb>
got the deced into the Craft. that there were very little</p>
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