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<p n="994">London Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that<lb></lb>
is to say, at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the<lb></lb>
East in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date225">4th. day of August 1795</rs>
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on view of the<lb></lb>
Body of a Man unknown now here lying<lb></lb>
Dead</p>
<p n="995"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n995-1">Humphrey Jefferies</rs>
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of No. 91 lower <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo944">Thames Street</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ284">Ironmonger</rs>
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maketh oath that about ½ past 4 in the<lb></lb>
afternoon of Sunday last he saw the deced who went by<lb></lb>
the Name of John and whom he has seen and known<lb></lb>
some Years past as a an Errand Man<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
upon the foot<lb></lb>
pavement on the south side of lower <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo945">Thames street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo946">parish of saint Mary at Hill</rs>
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<del>upon</del>
that he appeared to<lb></lb>
be in an awkward posture rather sitting upon his Heels<lb></lb>
one Hand on the pavement and the other hand bent towards<lb></lb>
his Head upon which he seemed to recline. that he appeared<lb></lb>
insensible. but whether he was asleep or otherwise Dept<lb></lb>
can't say. some persons coming part moved him and<lb></lb>
placed him in a sitting posture against the Wall of a<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo947">Warehouse</rs>
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near where he was that he never moved<lb></lb>
after-Dept. went to the Beadle of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo948">Billingsgate</rs>
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Ward<lb></lb>
& acquainted him of the deced being there-Dept. then<lb></lb>
returned to his own House which was opposite where the<lb></lb>
deced lay and sometime after the deced was moved<lb></lb>
by two Men (the Beadle of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo949">Billingsgate</rs>
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ward Mr. Tibbs being present) from where he lay to Dog Tavern Passage just across<lb></lb>
the street-that he was still insensible-that the deced<lb></lb>
continued in Dog Tavern passage until about ½ past<lb></lb>
nine when a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ285">Surgeon</rs>
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went to him who upon examining<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>discovered</del>
him declared he was dead</p>
<p n="996"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n996-1">Humpy Jefferis</rs>
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</p>
<p n="997">Sworn this 4th. day of August<lb></lb>
1795 before me}</p>
<p n="998"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n998-1">Nathaniel Tibbs</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ286">Beadle</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo950">Billingsgate</rs>
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Ward maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that about ½ past 6 OClock on Sunday afternoon last<lb></lb>
inconsequence of an Application from the last Witness Mr<lb></lb>
Jefferies Dept. went & found the deced whom he has known<lb></lb>
by eight some years lying upon the pavement in lower<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo951">Thames street</rs>
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opposite Mr. Jefferies House-that he was<lb></lb>
quite insensible & lying nearly double-that Dept. went<lb></lb>
& got two Men & in about a quarter of an hour returned<lb></lb>
to the deced. That it<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
raining very hard<lb></lb>
and some persons suggesting to Dept. that it would be better</p>
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