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<p n="38"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, as the parish of Saint Mary<lb></lb>
at Hill in the ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo48">Billingsgate</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo49">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the 12th. day of<lb></lb>
January 1798 on view of the body of a<lb></lb>
Man unknown now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="39"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n39-1">John Payne</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65011_occ16">Labourer</rs>
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and a Lodger as No. 3 play<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo50">house yard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo51">Golden Lane</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo52">County of Middlesex</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that about nine oClock as Night of Wednesday last<lb></lb>
Dept. being on board the princess Royal Graves end Boat<lb></lb>
lying along side the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo53">platform Billingsgate</rs>
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saw several<lb></lb>
persons who appeared to be Recruits and a person who<lb></lb>
appeared to be a Corporal or Serjeant come from the platform<lb></lb>
into the Vessel Dept. was in that she passed over the<lb></lb>
Princess Royal the Vessel Dept. was in and went<lb></lb>
towards<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the King George Sloop an the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo54">Gravesend</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Boat that lay next the Princess Royal-that one of<lb></lb>
there persons who appeared to be one of the Recruits<del>while</del>
<lb></lb>
<del>stepping from the Gun</del>
and whom Dept. believes to be the<lb></lb>
deced while stepping from the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo55">Garenhale of the</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65011_occ17">Princess</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Royal into the King George by<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
not stepping for<lb></lb>
enough fell between the two Vessels and sank under<lb></lb>
the Water in a little time after he came up and swam<lb></lb>
a little with his head above Water that the alarm was<lb></lb>
immediately given and several persons endeavoured<lb></lb>
to get near him in order to get him up that he sunk<lb></lb>
again under the Water and went down-that in<lb></lb>
about ½ an hour or three quarter of an hour after by<lb></lb>
means of some Grappling Irons the deced was got out<lb></lb>
of the Water and taken to the Antigallican Public<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo56">house in Darkhouse Lane</rs>
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but appeared to be quite<lb></lb>
dead</p>
<p n="40">Sworn this 12th. day of January.<lb></lb>
1798 before me}</p>
<p n="41"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n41-1">J. Payne</rs>
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