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Informations of Witness taken at the parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1111">Allhallows Barking</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Ward of Tower in London the<lb></lb>
23d. day of Octr. 1798 on view of the<lb></lb>
body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1256-1">Charles Thomas</rs>
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there<lb></lb>
lying dead.</p>
<p n="1257"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1257-1">Jane Spoulds</rs>
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of No.1 Red Cross<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Court<lb></lb>
Town Street Window maketh oath that yesterday<lb></lb>
afternoon between two and three o clock the mother<lb></lb>
of the dead<del>Mill</del>
came house<obscured></obscured>
Says she is a Cham<obscured></obscured>
on<lb></lb>
Shirty afterward she came down Slairs to fetch some<lb></lb>
Water and whilst the was so some a little had<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
to other of the dead<obscured></obscured>
out & sayed Charles the dead was on<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
This occasioned the mother to go up to them & dept<lb></lb>
followed her as last as the could up to the apartment where<lb></lb>
the & her Children lived & there she saw the mother<lb></lb>
end caug. to<obscured></obscured>
ust the flames up he Childs death.<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
assistd & the flames were<obscured></obscured>
The Child was must<lb></lb>
burned Every assistance was given to the Child<obscured></obscured>
he died<lb></lb>
in a few hours.</p>
<p n="1258">Sworn the 23d. Octr. 1798<lb></lb>
before me T. Shelton Corr}</p>
<p n="1259"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1259-1">Jane Sprulds</rs>
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