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London Deposition of a Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say, at the parish of Saint Mary
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aforesaid this 24th day of July
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1794 on view of the Body of William
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of No.18 Water Lane White friars
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maketh oath that his son the deced
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about twelve of years of ago left
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his House in
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aforesaid between four and
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five oClock on Saturday afternoon last that he was a
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to a
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in
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Lincolns Inn
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that between five & Six same afternoon Dept deced
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information from another of his Tons that the deced
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was drowned Dept
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saw his said Son the deced
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lying dead in the Bone house of St Mary as Hill
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Church on Tuesday afternoon last Dept understood
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from the information he reced that the deced was
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accidentally drowned
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Sworn this
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before me}
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