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<p n="388"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and LIberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo490">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this Sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of April 1764 at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-1">William Morrice</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
South Audley Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo491">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo492">Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within Liberty of Westmr in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo493">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on an Inquisition taken on View of the several Bodies of<lb></lb>
Diana Towers <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-2">Charles Towers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-3">Sarah Towers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-4">John Nichols</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-5">Mary Nichols</rs>
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his Wife & <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-6">Mary Nichols</rs>
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his Daughter lying Dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n388-7">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Coroner for<lb></lb>
for the said City and Liberty.</p>
<p n="389"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n389-1">William Sikes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ145">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n389-2">Edward Walter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ146">Esqr</rs>
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. in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo494">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Capacity of Valet do Chambre, on his Oath saith, that about<lb></lb>
twelve O'Clock on Friday Night last, Deponent went from his said<lb></lb>
Master's House, to his own Lodging in the House of Mrs. Nash situate <lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo495">James Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo496">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo497">Hanover Square</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of Westmr. where his wife also lodged (being one the first floor) Say's<lb></lb>
that he went to Bed about one O'Clock, and was alarmed in<lb></lb>
about half an hour, by Mrs. Aickin, (who was a lodger in the<lb></lb>
back room on the same Floor with Deponent) who knocked<lb></lb>
at Deponent's room Door and cryed out Fire, Deponent<lb></lb>
says that he immediately got out of Bed, and went down<lb></lb>
Stairs into the Street, the back room on the First Floor being<lb></lb>
then on Fire, Deponent says that he believes the Fire<lb></lb>
began in the two pair of Stairs, and that it was Accidentally<lb></lb>
and without any intention.</p>
<p n="390"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n390-1">Wm. Sikes</rs>
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</p>
<p n="391"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-1">Ann Nash</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo498">James Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo499">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo500">Hanover Square</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ147">Haberdasher on</rs>
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her Oath saith, that Dept<lb></lb>
being in her own House on Friday Night last, was there<lb></lb>
Alarmed about half on hour after one on Saturday Morning<lb></lb>
by Mr Sikes's crying out Fire, Says that she thereupon got<lb></lb>
up and on going into the Street observed that her two pair of<lb></lb>
Stairs Floor was on Fire, Says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-3">Diana Towers</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65204_occ148">Widow</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-4">Charles Towers</rs>
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& Sarah Towers, lodged in the back room on<lb></lb>
that Floor and that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-5">John Nichols</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-6">Mary Nichols</rs>
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his Wife and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n391-7">Mary Nichols</rs>
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his Daughter lodged in the Foreroom on the<lb></lb>
same Floor, Says that Diana Towers and her two Children<lb></lb>
Charles and Sarah, went up Stairs into their Room about<lb></lb>
ten O'Clock on friday Night, Says that she believes said</p>
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