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<lb></lb>
Depositions of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say, as the Parish of<lb></lb>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2134">Farringdon</rs>
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without in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
the 22nd. day of December 1792 on view<lb></lb>
of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n2071-1">Elizabeth Haycock</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="2072"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n2072-1">Hannah</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ791">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n2072-2">John Haycock</rs>
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Lovells<lb></lb>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2137">parish of St Leonard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2138">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2139">County of Middlesex</rs>
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maketh<lb></lb>
Oath that having occasion to go out about some business she<lb></lb>
left the deced (her Husbands Daughter a little Girl about<lb></lb>
ten years of Age) in the Kitchen of said House about seven<lb></lb>
OClock in the Evening of last Wednesday was Fortnight<lb></lb>
eating of her Supper that there was a little fire in the<lb></lb>
Grate and Dept. left a Candle on the Table for the deced<lb></lb>
and at the same time charged her not to go to sleep that<lb></lb>
in less than an hour after Dept. being at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a House in the<lb></lb>
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in Company with the deceds Lather reced<lb></lb>
information of the deced being burnt Dept. and the Father<lb></lb>
of the deced immediately returned home to their Friend<lb></lb>
that they found the deced in the yard and a Neighbour<lb></lb>
purnping some Water over her to prevent the fire about<lb></lb>
he Cloaths that then Dept. took hold of the deced and<lb></lb>
walked into the House with her Dept. asked the deced how she<lb></lb>
came burnt she sayed that she was going to light a<lb></lb>
Fire that while she was so doing the Candle which she had <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2141">Farringdon</rs>
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the Oath<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
caught her<lb></lb>
Apron and set her Cloaths on Fire that she endeavoured<lb></lb>
to put it out but could not and then ran into <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo2142">the yard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the House and cryed out Murder and that she Knocked<lb></lb>
at one of the Neighbour Door while her Cloaths were<lb></lb>
on Fire who came to her assistance and put the Flames<lb></lb>
out that soon after the deced was taken to Bartholomew<lb></lb>
Hospital that upon Dept. going to the Hospital yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning she understood the deced died about three in the<lb></lb>
afternoon of Thursday last.</p>
<p n="2073">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n2073-1">Hannah<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Haycock</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark.</p>
<p n="2074">Sworn this 22rd. day of December 1792}<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
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