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Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1376">Saint Botolph without</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1378">Ward of Aldgate</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1379">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the 23d day of Sept.<lb></lb>
1791 on view of the Bodies of two Infant<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ489">Children</rs>
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whose Names are unknown<lb></lb>
now here lying dead.</p>
<p n="1352"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1352-1">Edward Jolly</rs>
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a Lodger at No. 2 three King Court in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1380">the Minories</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65004_occ490">Button maker</rs>
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maketh Oath that<lb></lb>
about ½ past Eleven in the Morning of Wednesday last<lb></lb>
Dept. attending at a House No. 2 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1381">Hounsditch</rs>
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which had<lb></lb>
been on five the Night preceeding discovered the Body of<lb></lb>
a Child upon the Ground floor of said House that the<lb></lb>
Body was so much burntDept. can't say whether it<lb></lb>
was a boy or Girl & that Dept. assisted to take the deced<lb></lb>
to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the House of Mr. Thompson the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1382">Belly Church</rs>
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Row <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65004_geo1383">Hounsditch</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
in about a quarter of an hour afterwards Dept. having<lb></lb>
returned to the House went up to the top of the adjoining House & in a two pair of stairs<lb></lb>
back Room in the said Housethat had been burnt he<lb></lb>
saw one of the firemen attending the House take a Child<lb></lb>
from off a Beam that went across the two pair of stairs<lb></lb>
Roomthat the Child was so much burnt with the<lb></lb>
fire Deot, can't say whether that was a Boy or Girl<lb></lb>
that Dept. assisted to take the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Child to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>with the other Child that been found a cause of death</del>
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<p n="1353">Sworn the 23rd day of<lb></lb>
September 1791 before me}</p>
<p n="1354"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65004_n1354-1">Edward Jolly</rs>
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