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<p n="632"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo666">Southwark</rs>
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint John within the a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ223">Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo667">Southwark</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo668">Surrey</rs>
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the 19th. day of April 1791<lb></lb>
on view of the body of a Man unknown<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="633"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n633-1">Abraham Barton</rs>
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Grave digger to the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
John within <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo669">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo670">Southwark</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo671">County of Surrey</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that about a quarter before nine OClock on<lb></lb>
Sunday Morning last a person who looke like a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ224">Waterman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came to Dept. & informed him a drowned Man lay on<lb></lb>
the causeway as Pickleherring Stair in the parish aforesaid<lb></lb>
Dept. immediately procured a shell and went to Pickle-<lb></lb>
-herring Stairs aforesaid and there found the deced on<lb></lb>
Man unknown lying on the causeway aforesaid - that<lb></lb>
the deced had all his Cloaths on that he appeared to the<lb></lb>
a very poor Man his Cloaths very ragged and toon<lb></lb>
that he examined the deced pockets but found nothing<lb></lb>
in them - that he conveyed him to the bone house of said<lb></lb>
parish - that he has made diligent inquiry but cannot<lb></lb>
learn who the deced was</p>
<p n="634">Sworn the 19th day of<lb></lb>
April 1791 before me}</p>
<p n="635"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n635-1">Abraham Barton</rs>
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<p n="636"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n636-1">George Taylor</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ225">Pauper</rs>
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belonging to the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
John <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo672">Southwark</rs>
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and living in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo673">Workhouse</rs>
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of said parish<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that he lay the body deced outthat<lb></lb>
the examined the deced and found no marks of violence<lb></lb>
whatever on him.</p>
<p n="637"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n637-1">George Taylor</rs>
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<p n="638">Sworn the 19th day of<lb></lb>
April 1791 before me}</p>
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