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PG-P.737.028
25 Aug-1 Sep 1737:21 (455)
London, May 28. Yesterday just as St. Paul's struck eleven,
there was as great a change of a scene of joy to sorrow as
has been known for a long time: A six-oar barge, with
several gentlemen and ladies, attended by a boat, in which
were a band of musick and two watermen; the barge went thro'
London Bridge, but the watermen in the boat rowing in haste,
to get thro' the next arch, laid the boat side-way to the
tide, and her stern running against the sterlings, she
turn'd keel upwards in a moment; one of the watermen got
upon the sterlings, the other (belonging to the Earl of
Albermarle) was taken up almost dead, as was one of the
musick; the other three were unfortunately drown'd. This
was beheld by the company to whom they belong'd, with the
utmost concern, the ladies fainting away, and the gentlemen
so surpriz'd that they were unable to help them for some
time. Orders were given immediately to search for the
bodies of the unhappy persons drown'd, and the company
obliged to desist from their intended pleasure.
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