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, who is charged before
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me with having wilfully set Fire to his Dwelling
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House No. 6 Bird in hand Court in the said City
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Who on his Oath saith that he hath
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this day taken a particular view of
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the Closet up on the landing Place up
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one pair of Stairs in the Dwelling House
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of the said
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and of the
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Corner Cupboard with in such Closet
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that he is clearly of Opinion that the Closet
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was fixed up before the House was inhabited
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and that it is actually a part of the said
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Dwelling House, and would be so deemed
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and considered to be by any Workman
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that it also appears to him very
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clearly that a part of such Closet hath
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been on Fire, and that the Corner
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Cupboard, which appear to him to have been
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an original Fixture not to be taken
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down is much burn't and that the
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Corner of the Jaumb living of the Closet Window appears also to have
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been on Fire.
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Taken and sworn at
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Guildhall
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23d Day of March
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1779
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before me one of the Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for the
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Wm. Payne
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