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1791 on view of the Bodies of two Infant
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now here lying dead.
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Edward Jolly
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a Lodger at No. 2 three King Court in
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maketh Oath that
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about ½ past Eleven in the Morning of Wednesday last
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Dept. attending at a House No. 2
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which had
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been on five the Night preceeding discovered the Body of
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a Child upon the Ground floor of said House that the
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Body was so much burntDept. can't say whether it
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in about a quarter of an hour afterwards Dept. having
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returned to the House went up to the top of the adjoining House & in a two pair of stairs
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back Room in the said Housethat had been burnt he
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saw one of the firemen attending the House take a Child
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from off a Beam that went across the two pair of stairs
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Roomthat the Child was so much burnt with the
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fire Deot, can't say whether that was a Boy or Girl
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Sworn the 23rd day of
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September 1791 before me}
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