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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan
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in the East in the ward of Tower in London
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aforesaid this
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8th. day of January 1795
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on
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Edward Sayers
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now
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here lying Dead
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Edward Hart
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of No. 45 Joiner Street Tooley Street
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Hair dresser
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced about
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twelve Months-that he was a Watchman & sometimes employed
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by Mr Ogle a Wharfinger-that about six oClock in the Evening of
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Monday last Dept. was on Duty as a Watchman on Wiggins Quay
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that the deced ware employed & on Duty as a
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on Ralph
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adjoining to wiggins Quay that the deced appeared
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to be sober & him & Dept. walked backwards & forwards on the
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too Quays conversing together that after walking some ten or
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twenty Minutes. the deced left Dept. & went toward Ralphs
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Quay that several other persons were in Company with the deced
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& Dept.-that a few Minutes before twelve that night a person
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who was also
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Watchman on the same Quay with Dept
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sayed God bless me there
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overboard-Dept and
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him immediately went to a Lighter lying between youngs &
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and on looking down they saw a Man playing
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in the Water. they threw a Rope but without effect-that
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after trying some time without effect a
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some Grappling
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from were brought and after trying a little time the deced
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was looked up to the waters edge by the Grappling Irons
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that Dept.
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assisted in taking to the deced to the
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Antigallicon pull in House in order that the method
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directed by the Human Society might tried.
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Sworn this 8th. day of January}
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1795 before me}
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Ed Hart
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Isaac Shannon
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maketh Oath that on Monday night last Dept. was
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employed as a watchman in young Quay that he saw the deced
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employed as a watchman on board Lighter which lay between
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youngs & Wiggins Quay-Dept. went on Duty at ½ part 4
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the deced was then on Duty-& walked backwards & forwards
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upon the Quay in Company with
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& other some time
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