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<p n="308"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Deposition of a Witness taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo230">Parish of Allhallows</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
Great in the Ward of Dowgate in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date71">23d. day of February 1795</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n308-1">John Waterman</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying Dead</p>
<p n="309"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n309-1">James Jaques</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ84">Apprentice</rs>
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to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n309-2">James Gabbins</rs>
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of Thomas<lb></lb>
Street Builder maketh Oath that he hath known the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n309-3">John Waterman</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65008_n309-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
(who was a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ85">Carpenter</rs>
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by Trade) about a Week<lb></lb>
part in consequence of his coming to Mr. Gubbin's for Charity<lb></lb>
That he appeared to be a very aged and infirm Man-that<lb></lb>
he saw the deced about five O Clock on Friday Night last in<lb></lb>
a Watch Box the Corner of Friar's Alley <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n309-4">Thomas Street</rs>
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that he<lb></lb>
appeared very ill<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
much so that he was supported by a<lb></lb>
Person of the Name of Hawkins-that he appeared to be in a<lb></lb>
dying state-that some persons moved the deced from the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
to the Friar Public House just by-that he was taken into a<lb></lb>
Room in. that house that a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ86">Surgeon</rs>
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was sent who soon after<lb></lb>
came (a Mr. Anderson) that he examined the deced that the<lb></lb>
deced departed this Life put before he was moved to the public House<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that upon<lb></lb>
Mr. Anderson examining the deced he sayed the deced appeared<lb></lb>
to him to have some disease on him & that he was of opinion the<lb></lb>
deced did not die intirely from want but that the disease<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
was afflicted with for want of proper care together with want of<lb></lb>
proper Nourishment might occasion his Death</p>
<p n="310">Sworn this 23d. day of February 1795<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="311">J Jaques</p>
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