John Burgess< no role > a Taylor & a Lodger at the House of
Mr. Front Back of St. Clements Church in the Strand
Cheesmonger maketh Oath that a little after twelve in
the day of Wednesday last Dept. being at work in a two
pair of Stairs front Room of said House heard a Child
crying in a Room on the same Floor and thinking into he
one of his own Children requitted his work for the purpose
of going to his Dinner - Dept. went up a few Stairs [mark] and
[..] met his wife who saying she saw a Light under the Door
of the [..] Pair of Stair back Room facing where Dept. had
been at Work and which Room is occupied by a Mr. John
Wooland whom Dept. understood to be the Farther of the deced
Dept. opened the Door gently thinking the Mother of the Child
was in the Room That on opening the Door and Cooking in
Dept. discovered a great Smoke in the Room and the deced
running about the Room with it Cloaths almost burnt
off Dept. immediately took hold of the Child and a Mr.
White who lodger in same house brought some to her
& there over the Child which proved to be a little Boy
about Four Years of Age Ten of said Mr. Woolard
Dept. undertood the deced was taken to St. Bartholomew Hospital the
same day & that the deced died in the Hospital the day following of the
injury occasioned by the Fire.

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John [mark] Burgess< no role >
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