London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Bride
in the ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid the 18 day of October
1790 on view of the body Jane Pupflet< no role >
now here lying dead

Joseph Moor< no role > and Apprentice to James Bird< no role > late of No: 1 Now Bridge
Street Blackfriers in the City of London Hair Merchant maketh
Oath that about the hour of seven in the Morning of Wednesday the 6th.
day of October instt. Dept. was [..] with a Cry of Fire by Person on
the opposite side of the way Dept being [..] sweet king the Door way before
[..] Master's paid Mr Birds/ June 1st she [..] some Smoke come
from out of the Garret Window of said come that he ran in Doors [..]
[..] the people in the house that on going into the house he observed
the House keeper in her Shift alarming the Lodgers that the front Stair
Case leading from the Parlour to [..] taken was then on Five
that Dept. [..] back Stair care to a front Room up three pair
of Stair the Room where Dept. supposed Mary Ann Bird< no role > him Maden
Draught [..] Slept that Dept. opened the Door and went into said
Room that he found Miss Bird and the deced in said Room in their
Shifts a that he told them [..] they made [..] down stair the would
[..] the Fire then burning very violent that he left then
there and made the best of his way down Stairs that soon after the
House was all in Flames and in about twenty Minutes the inside of
the house fell in that the Flames commanitealed with the adjoining
[..] that about One OClock in the Afternoon of Saturday last the
deced [..] was [..] up from amongst the Ricing that after the Flames
were got under Dept: don't know of any Person being Missing except
the Maid whom he left in said Room with Miss Bird [..] Name
was Jane Pupflet< no role > that the body which was duguss was in such a
mangled date and so much burned he can't with certainty say it is the
said Jane Pupflet< no role > but there being no other person missing and having
left her in and Room Dept. has every reason to believe it to be the same

Sworn the day and Year
before mentd before me}

T. Shelton
Corr

Joseph Moores< no role >