as I was in Bed and I heard him go into
his Room, and I soon afterwards dropt
as loop that about 12 o'Clock Bill Wilkie
who happend to at the next transe called
to me to came down and open the Shut
door as something was a miss in Jone's
Room on the first Floor, whereupon Islipt
on my Cloaths, struck a Light and let Riq
Wilkie into the houseandwho went up
Stairs with me and called to Jones to open
the [..] his Room Door and he said I cannot
upon which I put a Knife between the Door
and I amb and lift up the Latch and
when we found the deceased (who had only his
Shirt on and Pantaloms lying on the Floor and his Shirt
about his Neckablequite on Fire and
the lighted Candle standing on the Floor
by him and he appeared to be drunk
and we extingushed the Flames and
wrapped

wrapped him in a sheet and Blankett and conveyed
him to the Westminster Session any and he
quite sensible and said he was un dropping
himself and that his Neck Cloth took
fire from the Candle which he could
not extinguish

The [mark] Mark
of Sarah Beenes< no role > .

Thomas James Heckford< no role > House Surgeon at
the Westminster Informing being Room deposeth
as follows to wit .That about five Minutes
before one o'Clock on Sunday morning two
Watchman brought the deceased to that Horpike
and informed one that he became burned in the
manner he now appears and was then very
much intoxicated with Liquor, and I was
informed