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Informations taken this Twenty eighth
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Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon an
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on his Oath saith, That Yesterday between Twelve
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some time informed where he lay in the River
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by a Person who had felt him, upon which
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he Dived and got hold of the Deced, of
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got him up to the Surface, and with to
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that yesterday about half past Twelve
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