London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at
London that is to say, as the Parish of
Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward
of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
the 22nd. day of December 1792 on view
of the body of Elizabeth Haycock< no role > now
here lying Dead.

Hannah< no role > the Wife of John Haycock< no role > of [..] Lovells
Buildings Kingsland Road in the parish of St Leonard
Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex Plaisterer maketh
Oath that having occasion to go out about some business she
left the deced (her Husbands Daughter a little Girl about
ten years of Age) in the Kitchen of said House about seven
OClock in the Evening of last Wednesday was Fortnight
eating of her Supper that there was a little fire in the
Grate and Dept. left a Candle on the Table for the deced
and at the same time charged her not to go to sleep that
in less than an hour after Dept. being at [..] a House in the
neighbourhood in Company with the deceds Lather reced
information of the deced being burnt Dept. and the Father
of the deced immediately returned home to their Friend
that they found the deced in the yard and a Neighbour
purnping some Water over her to prevent the fire about
he Cloaths that then Dept. took hold of the deced and
walked into the House with her Dept. asked the deced how she
came burnt she sayed that she was going to light a
Fire that while she was so doing the Candle which she had Farringdon the Oath [..] caught her
Apron and set her Cloaths on Fire that she endeavoured
to put it out but could not and then ran into the yard
of the House and cryed out Murder and that she Knocked
at one of the Neighbour Door while her Cloaths were
on Fire who came to her assistance and put the Flames
out that soon after the deced was taken to Bartholomew
Hospital that upon Dept. going to the Hospital yesterday
Morning she understood the deced died about three in the
afternoon of Thursday last.

her
Hannah [mark] Haycock< no role >
Mark.

Sworn this 22rd. day of December 1792}
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