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<p n="573"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo798">City & Liberty <lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo799">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Sixteenth day <lb></lb>
of May 1791 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo800">Parish of St. Martin <lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo801">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. <lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisition <lb></lb>
touching the death of Miss <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n573-1">Elizabeth <lb></lb>
Stewart</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ602">lying dead</rs>
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in the said Parish <lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="574"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n574-1">James Duffe</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo802">Salisbury Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo803">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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on his Oath<lb></lb>
saith That on Saturday Evening the Seventh<lb></lb>
Instant upon hearing his Servant Francis Say<lb></lb>
that he saw a great Light above Stairs and<lb></lb>
that he thought the House was on Fire this Dept.<lb></lb>
went up Stairs, and saw the Deced standing<lb></lb>
between the two Doors at the Top of the<lb></lb>
two pair of Stairs with her Cloaths of Fire<lb></lb>
Flaming violently Says that he used every means<lb></lb>
in the power to eatinguish the Flames by<lb></lb>
Rolling a Blanket around the Deced and<lb></lb>
having a Pail of Water poured down the<lb></lb>
Deced's Back and on the Floor<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>the Deced had stood</del>
in several Place, the<lb></lb>
Deced being very much Burnt upon her<lb></lb>
Neck Says that the Deced afterwards<lb></lb>
declared that as she was standing in her<lb></lb>
Bed chamber with her Back to do fire drying some of her Cloaths<lb></lb>
the Gown took Fire which burnt her<lb></lb>
Cloaths, Says that the Burnt Cloaths were<lb></lb>
taken off others put on, and the Deced<lb></lb>
put into Bed, That Mr. Robinson a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ604">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
was fetched to the Deced but that she Deced<lb></lb>
upon the Ninth Instant of the Burning<lb></lb>
which had happened and Dept. believes<lb></lb>
it to be mere by Accidental.</p>
<p n="575"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n575-1">Jam Duff</rs>
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<p n="576"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65231_n576-1">James Robinson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo804">Parliament Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65231_geo805">Westmr.</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65231_occ605">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath saith That about Ten<lb></lb>
o' Clock on Saturday Evening the Seventh Instant<lb></lb>
he was desired to go to the Deced who he<lb></lb>
found very much Burnt upon her Back<lb></lb>
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