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<p n="167"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15087_n167-1">John Lowe</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15087_occ108">Labourer</rs>
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lodging in a Tenement<lb></lb>
belonging to Simonds of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo115">Knight Ryder<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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London Pawnbroker maketh Oath and<lb></lb>
saith that on Friday last the 19th. day of July inst.<lb></lb>
about the Hour of 4 in the Afternoon Dept. being at<lb></lb>
the Bottom of a Barge belonging to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15087_n167-2">George<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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lying in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo116">River of Thames</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo117">Bull<lb></lb>
Wharfe</rs>
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Dept. and one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15087_n167-3">Daniel Bushnell</rs>
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laid a<lb></lb>
Plank from the sd. Barge to the Wharfe there one<lb></lb>
end of which rested upon the Wharfe and the<lb></lb>
other upon one side of the Barge; and Dept. and<lb></lb>
sd. Bushnell were going to land from the sd. Barge<lb></lb>
three empty lacks but were prevented by the deced.<lb></lb>
who insisted that it was his right to land the<lb></lb>
same as he was a Freeman and Dept. and sd<lb></lb>
Bushnell were Foreigners;<del>and on the deced's</del>
<lb></lb>
that sd. Bushnell told the deced he shod. not pass<lb></lb>
over the Road which Dept. and Bushnell had made<lb></lb>
meaning the said Plank, yet the deced forceably<lb></lb>
entred on the sd. Plank in order to put into the said<lb></lb>
Barge and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
after he had got<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
upon the Plank the<lb></lb>
said Bushnell<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
who being at the Bottom of the sd.<lb></lb>
Barge moved the sd. Plank<obscured></obscured>
the same<obscured></obscured>
and then drawing<obscured></obscured>
by means of which the<lb></lb>
deced fell into the sd. River and was drowned that<lb></lb>
<del>the</del>
the sd.<del>Bushnell</del>
Bushnell immediately on seeing<lb></lb>
the deced fall into the River appeared to be very much<lb></lb>
affected, and cryed out, help, help, and made a<lb></lb>
Plunge over the side of the Barge in order to get hold of<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the deced but missed him. Says he was so<lb></lb>
much out prised that he could not stay at the place<lb></lb>
where the Accident happened, so came away, and in<lb></lb>
about a Quarter of an Hour afterwards Dept. saw the<lb></lb>
Body of the deced brought into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo118">Kings Arms</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
Publick House at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo119">Queenhith</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="168">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15087_date36">22d. day of July 1776</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="169">John Lowe</p>
<p n="170"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15087_n170-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15087_occ109">Corr</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="171"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15087_n171-1">Richard Harding</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo120">Maidenhead</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo121">County of<lb></lb>
Berks</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15087_occ110">Bargeman</rs>
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maketh oath and saith that on<lb></lb>
Friday last the 19th. of July inst he this Dept. being in a<lb></lb>
Barge lying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15087_geo122">Bull Wharfe</rs>
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belonging to Mr. Robinsons<lb></lb>
a Plank was laid from the sd. Wharfe to the Barge by<lb></lb>
sd. Bushnell and John Lowe for a Road: that the<lb></lb>
deced asked them what they were at there, to which<lb></lb>
sd. Bushnell said, what is that to you, and the deced</p>
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