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<p n="1568"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
to wit, at the Parish of Saint Mary at Hill<lb></lb>
in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo1303">Billingsgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65002_date200">14th. day of August 1789</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n1568-1">John Turnpenny</rs>
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<lb></lb>
then and there lying Dead</p>
<p n="1569"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n1569-1">Nathaniel Tibbs</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65002_occ563">Beadle</rs>
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of the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo1304">Billingsgate</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo1305">London</rs>
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maketh Oath and saith that between the hours of five<lb></lb>
and Six in the Evening of Yesterday the 13th instant Deponent<lb></lb>
was informed a Drowned Manlay at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo1306">Billingsgate</rs>
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Stairs in<lb></lb>
said Ward that he went down to said Stairs and saw the deced<lb></lb>
floating in the Water between two Whereups at said Stairs that<lb></lb>
Deponent gave direction to two people that were standing<lb></lb>
by to bring the Body on Shore, that the Body was broughton<lb></lb>
Shore to the Bone house of the parish of Saint Mary at Hill<lb></lb>
that there don't appear to be any marks of Violence about<lb></lb>
the deced. that Deponent found a paper in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65002_geo1307">Breeches</rs>
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<lb></lb>
pocket of the deced, by which paper is appears that the<lb></lb>
deced was Named <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n1569-2">John Turnpenny</rs>
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; and was appointed<lb></lb>
to do Duty as a Watchman on board the Ship Hibberts<lb></lb>
from Jamaicas</p>
<p n="1570">Sworn the 14th day of January 1789<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1571">T:Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="1572"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65002_n1572-1">Nathl. Tibbs</rs>
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