That in a about the Month of August last your
Petitioners dwelling house being laid open by reason of
the adjoining House being pulled down your Petitioner and
his Wife and Children were obliged to take a temporary
Lodging at Chelsea and to sleep there until the said
adjoining House should be rebuilt, but nevertheless your
Petitioners Business still continued to be carried on in
his said dwelling house in Queen Street aforesaid, where
your Petitions, continued with his Journeymen and
Apprentices every day in the conduding and managing
his said Business, and where his apprentices still
continued on Lodge.

That your Petitioners Property being much exposed by
means of the party Wall being pulled dour, your Petitioner
gave strict orders to his said Apprentice in the absence of
your petitioner to stay at home and not absent himself
from your Petitioners said dwelling house. that notwithstanding
your Petitioners order the said John Horrod< no role > the Younger left
the said dwelling House one Evening in the month of
September last and Locked up the Street door without your
Petitioners leave, and upon your, Petitioners Return home
about Eight o'clock in the same Evening he found the Street
door Cocked and no person within the said Dwelling house
That your Petitioner after waiting some time at the Street
door, and not being able to get admittance thereat, after [..]
got into his said dwelling house this the temporary Horde
erected in front of the adjacent House, and found a Candle
which had been left burning by his said Apprentice . That
your Petitioners continued in his said dwelling house after
he had so got in as aforesaid until half past Eleven