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London Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that
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is to say, at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the
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East in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid
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this
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4th. day of August 1795
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on view of the
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Body of a Man unknown now here lying
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Dead
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Humphrey Jefferies
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of No. 91 lower
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London
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Ironmonger
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maketh oath that about ½ past 4 in the
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afternoon of Sunday last he saw the deced who went by
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the Name of John and whom he has seen and known
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some Years past as a an Errand Man
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upon the foot
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pavement on the south side of lower
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Thames street
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in the
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parish of saint Mary at Hill
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upon
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that he appeared to
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be in an awkward posture rather sitting upon his Heels
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one Hand on the pavement and the other hand bent towards
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his Head upon which he seemed to recline. that he appeared
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insensible. but whether he was asleep or otherwise Dept
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can't say. some persons coming part moved him and
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placed him in a sitting posture against the Wall of a
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Warehouse
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near where he was that he never moved
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after-Dept. went to the Beadle of
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Billingsgate
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Ward
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& acquainted him of the deced being there-Dept. then
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returned to his own House which was opposite where the
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deced lay and sometime after the deced was moved
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by two Men (the Beadle of
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Billingsgate
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ward Mr. Tibbs being present) from where he lay to Dog Tavern Passage just across
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the street-that he was still insensible-that the deced
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continued in Dog Tavern passage until about ½ past
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nine when a
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Surgeon
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went to him who upon examining
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discovered
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him declared he was dead
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Humpy Jefferis
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Sworn this 4th. day of August
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1795 before me}
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Nathaniel Tibbs
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Beadle
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of
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Ward maketh
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Oath that about ½ past 6 OClock on Sunday afternoon last
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inconsequence of an Application from the last Witness Mr
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Jefferies Dept. went & found the deced whom he has known
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by eight some years lying upon the pavement in lower
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opposite Mr. Jefferies House-that he was
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quite insensible & lying nearly double-that Dept. went
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& got two Men & in about a quarter of an hour returned
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to the deced. That it
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raining very hard
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and some persons suggesting to Dept. that it would be better
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