London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at London that
is to say at the Precinct of White fryers in the Ward
of Farringdon without in London aforesaid the
2nd. day of January 1793 on view of the
Body of Faith Watson< no role > now here lying
Dead

Edward Watson< no role > of No. 46 Ironmonger Row Old Street
in the County of Middlesex Watchmaker maketh Oath that
the deced who was Dept. Mother and a Widow has resided
with Dept. for near there ten Years past being intirdly
supported by Dept. that she has been in the habit of intoxicating
herself with liquor very often during that time and when
intoxicated used to be very unruly and behaved in a very
violent and outrageous manner and in her sober minutes
Dept. observed her to be very melancholy and Dull so much
so that Dept. thought she was rather disordered in her Senses
that last Thursday about two OClock in the afternoon of Dept
having remonstrated with the deced concerning her late
Conduct the deced quitted Dept. house-that Dept. saw nor
heard nothing of the deced until Monday when Dept. heard
from the Beadle of Whitefriers Precinct that a Woman was
found drowned in the said Precinct whom from some papers
found about the deced and the description given of the Dept.
concluded to be his Mother that he has seen the deced this Evening
who proves to be his Mother that had quitted his house as before
stated.

Edwd Watson< no role >

William Townsend< no role > a peruke maker lodging at the house
of John Smith< no role > of Wilderness Lane parish of Saint Brides
London maketh Oath that about one OClock in the afternoon on Monday last
Dept. having reced direction to go to the bottom of Water Lane
to fetch the deced that he according went and in a Barge
lying alongside of Mr. West Whar at the bottom of Water Lane
he found the deced-that she appeared as if she had not been
long in the Water-that Dept. up [..] to take the deced to the
Place who she now lay's

The above mentioned Deposition taken and
sworn this 2nd. day of January 1793 before me}

Wm. Townsend< no role >