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<lb></lb>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan<lb></lb>
in the East in the ward of Tower in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date14">8th. day of January 1795</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n45-1">Edward Sayers</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying Dead</p>
<p n="46"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n46-1">Edward Hart</rs>
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of No. 45 Joiner Street Tooley Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo43">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ16">Hair dresser</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about<lb></lb>
twelve Months-that he was a Watchman & sometimes employed<lb></lb>
by Mr Ogle a Wharfinger-that about six oClock in the Evening of<lb></lb>
Monday last Dept. was on Duty as a Watchman on Wiggins Quay<lb></lb>
that the deced ware employed & on Duty as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ17">Watchman</rs>
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on Ralph<lb></lb>
Quay<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
adjoining to wiggins Quay that the deced appeared<lb></lb>
to be sober & him & Dept. walked backwards & forwards on the<lb></lb>
too Quays conversing together that after walking some ten or<lb></lb>
twenty Minutes. the deced left Dept. & went toward Ralphs<lb></lb>
Quay that several other persons were in Company with the deced<lb></lb>
& Dept.-that a few Minutes before twelve that night a person<lb></lb>
who was also<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Watchman on the same Quay with Dept<lb></lb>
sayed God bless me there<obscured></obscured>
overboard-Dept and<lb></lb>
him immediately went to a Lighter lying between youngs &<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo44">Wiggins Quay</rs>
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and on looking down they saw a Man playing<lb></lb>
in the Water. they threw a Rope but without effect-that<lb></lb>
after trying some time without effect a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
some Grappling<lb></lb>
from were brought and after trying a little time the deced<lb></lb>
was looked up to the waters edge by the Grappling Irons<lb></lb>
that he was soon after taken on Shore but was quite dead<lb></lb>
that Dept.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
assisted in taking to the deced to the<lb></lb>
Antigallicon pull in House in order that the method<lb></lb>
directed by the Human Society might tried.</p>
<p n="47">Sworn this 8th. day of January}<lb></lb>
1795 before me}</p>
<p n="48"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n48-1">Ed Hart</rs>
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<p n="49"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n49-1">Isaac Shannon</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo45">No. 2 Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo46">Houndsditch</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo47">London</rs>
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maketh Oath that on Monday night last Dept. was<lb></lb>
employed as a watchman in young Quay that he saw the deced<lb></lb>
employed as a watchman on board Lighter which lay between<del>next</del>
<lb></lb>
youngs & Wiggins Quay-Dept. went on Duty at ½ part 4<lb></lb>
the deced was then on Duty-& walked backwards & forwards<lb></lb>
upon the Quay in Company with<obscured></obscured>
& other some time</p>
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