LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London that is to
say at the parish of Saint Helen in the ward of
Bishopsgate within in London aforesaid this 2d. day of
September 1799. on view of the body of Robert
Burland a Child now here lying Dead.

William Hake< no role > Clerk to Messrs. Buller & Company of Crosby
square London maketh oath that about ½ past two in the
afternoon of Friday last Dept. being in the Compting house at the
House of Messrs. Buller & Compy as afsd. heard a Noise as of a Window
being broke and upon going into the Hall of said House on the Ground
floor he saw the deced lying on the stone pavement of the Hall-Dept
went up Stairs and called a Carpenter who wasisin the House who
came down with Dept. and took the Child up that the deced
appeared dead Dept. sent [..] for a Mr. Burrows a Surgeon who
soon after came and on seeing the deced sayed he was quite dead
Dept. observed blood came from the deced's Ear-That soon after
Dept. came down Stairs with the Carpenter on beforementioned the Mother of the deced
(who with her Husband and their Children occupied [..] an upper
Room in the said House while the House is repairing) came down
Stairs and appeared very much concerned sayed she had seen the
deced just before and had told him to grand plays andthesayed she
wondered how the Daor had come open meaning [..] Dept
understood a [..] leading to the leads at the top of the House over
which is a Sky light through which it was supposed the deced had fell

William Hake< no role >

Sworn this 2d. day of September
1799 before me}