London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Bridger
otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid this ninth
day of February 1793 on view of the
Body of Eleanor Burton< no role > an Infant
now here lying dead

Thomas Burton< no role > of No.1 Rose & Crown Court Shoe
Lane London< no role > Printer maketh Oath that about four in the
afternoon of last Sunday Week Dept. being in the two pair of
Stairs [..] Room of said house the deced in Daughter about
six years of Age came running up the Stairs [..] and went up
into the Garrett Stairs Dept. followed her that upon following her
Dept. found her Cloaths all in the Flames. Dept. endeavoured
to put the Flames out and by getting a Blanket out of the
two pair of Stairs Dept. put the Flames out that the deced
was very much burnt that Dept. sent for a Surgeon that
in a little time after Dept. asked the deced how it happened
the deced sayed that while Dept. and his wife were gone up
Stairs that to drop themselves she having been left in the
lower Room wherein was a fire had put the Poker into the
Fire that thinking Dept. would be angry with her for having
put the Poker in the Fire the Poker being red hot and the
handle so warm she could not take hold of it with her bare
hand she took the end of her Frock that while she was so
doing part of her Frock caught fire by the Hot part of the
Poker and by that means set her Cloaths all on fire that
the deced lived in great pain until Wednesday Evening last
when she departed this Life from the injury else sustained by
being burnt.

Thomas Burton< no role >