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<p n="1798"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit.</note>
The Informations of Witnesses<lb></lb>
taken at the parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1822">Billingsgate</rs>
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in the ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1823">Billingsgate</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1824">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the 18th day of September<lb></lb>
1792 on view of the body of a man unknown now<lb></lb>
here lying dead.</p>
<p n="1799"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1799-1">Fabian Phillips</rs>
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No 6 <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1799-2">Grange Walk</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1826">County of Surrey</rs>
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Gangman at Cox's<lb></lb>
Quay London upon his Oath saith that<lb></lb>
yesterday afternoon about half past<lb></lb>
five o'Clock being on <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1827">Cox's Quay</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
saw something floating through<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1828">London Bridge</rs>
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which the tide<lb></lb>
brought down to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1829">Cox's Quay</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
he look a Boat and went to it and<lb></lb>
found it to be the body of the Deceased<lb></lb>
which he lock into the Boat and<lb></lb>
by order of the Parish Officers of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1830">Billingsgate</rs>
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landed it on the Quay<lb></lb>
and delivered it to the parish Clock<lb></lb>
-That the body appeared to have<lb></lb>
been in the Water about Eight or<lb></lb>
Nine Days and had on a mixed<lb></lb>
Coloured Coat Striped Waistcoat blue<lb></lb>
Nockings and Shoes tied with a String<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1799-3">Nankeen Meeches</rs>
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<lb></lb>
but found nothing about the body<lb></lb>
by which Deponent could<obscured></obscured>
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