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<p n="356"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo205">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n356-1">James Gubbins</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 1st. day of April 1788</p>
<p n="357">Who being upon Oath saith that he is<obscured></obscured>
Surveyor to<lb></lb>
the Sun<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Fire OfficeThat between the hours of Ten<lb></lb>
and eleven on Monday Morning the 24th. of March last he went to the Fire<lb></lb>
on the Ruins in Pultney Street then into the Room on<lb></lb>
the Ground Floor where he saw Broughton an other<lb></lb>
FiremanThat he saw Clarey now present raking<lb></lb>
with his handsThat he asked<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Broughton what he was<lb></lb>
about when he replied that he was looking after Clareys<lb></lb>
PropertyThat said Clarey informed this Informant<lb></lb>
that he had lost sixteen or seventeen Guineas in Money<lb></lb>
Informant then asked him if he had lost no other Property<lb></lb>
when he replied that he had lost five hundred Pounds<lb></lb>
in Bank NotesThat he said his Money and Notes were<lb></lb>
in a Chest and pointed to apart of the Ruins where<lb></lb>
he said the said Chest had stood. That upon searching<lb></lb>
the Ruins be discovered the end of a Chest on which<lb></lb>
was an Iron handle when said Clarey observed that<lb></lb>
that was the Chest, as he knew it by the handle<lb></lb>
That after removing<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a little in the depth of the<lb></lb>
Rubbish he discovered that the lid of the Chest had been<lb></lb>
burnt and that it contained several pieces of Hay<lb></lb>
Bands, Rolls of Paper, and pieces of coarse Cloth. That<lb></lb>
in a few Minutes afterwards he returned to the Spot<lb></lb>
where he saw said Clarey tearing the Rolls of Paper and<lb></lb>
flinging them about the the Ruins. That he then<lb></lb>
observed</p>
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