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<p n="829"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo779">Southwark</rs>
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
the Parish of Saint John within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ238">Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo780">Southwark</rs>
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in the County of<lb></lb>
Surrey this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date191">18th day of June 1794</rs>
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on view<lb></lb>
of the Body of a Man unknown now<lb></lb>
here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="830"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n830-1">Abraham Barton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ239">Grave Digger</rs>
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of the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo781">Saint John within. the Borough of Southwark</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that Yesterday about two OClock a person came<lb></lb>
to Dept. and acquainted him a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
drowned man lay<lb></lb>
at <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n830-3">Horsley Down</rs>
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new stairs, in consequence of which<lb></lb>
and on the Landing place of the stain Dept. saw the<lb></lb>
deced lying on his Back covered over with a Mat<lb></lb>
that he had a Sailors Dress on that the appeared to<lb></lb>
have been some time in the Water and the Body was<lb></lb>
in a putrid state-that the person who gave Dept. the<lb></lb>
Informon of the deced lying there appeared to be a Water<lb></lb>
man & told Dept. he had found the deced at the Ren<lb></lb>
of Ship in the River & had towed the deced on Shend<lb></lb>
to the Stairs where Dept. foundhim.</p>
<p n="831">Sworn this 18th. une 1794<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="832"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n832-1">Aberaham Barton</rs>
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