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<p n="1229"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo1179">Saint Catherine</rs>
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Cere in the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo1180">Aldgate</rs>
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in London the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65001_date245">30th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1788</rs>
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on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n1229-1">Rachael Bottobold</rs>
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there lying dead.</p>
<p n="1230"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n1230-1">David Perez</rs>
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of Woolpack Alley <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65001_geo1181">Houndsditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65001_occ516">labourer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh oath that last Sunday<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
afternoon as Dept was<lb></lb>
going from home, the next door to when the parents of the deced<lb></lb>
Child lives, a little Girl a cousin of the deceds told Dept her<lb></lb>
Cousin was all over fine which occasioned Dept so go into the house<lb></lb>
& up to the one pair of Stairs room, at the door whereof he saw<lb></lb>
the deced a child about 6 years of age in flames, and dept<lb></lb>
endeavoured to take the Cloaths off her. Dept gave an alarm<lb></lb>
& some persons came to his assistance with some water, and<lb></lb>
extinguished the flames with it. Says two little Girls were<lb></lb>
in the room at the same time, and a fire was in the room<lb></lb>
That he believes no other persons than the before mentd. two<lb></lb>
Little Girls, and an infant in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Cradle besides the deced were<lb></lb>
in the house. That the Child died soon afterwards.</p>
<p n="1231">Sworn the 30th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1788 before me}</p>
<p n="1232">T Shelton Corr.</p>
<p n="1233"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65001_n1233-1">David Pares</rs>
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