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maketh Oath that about ½ part six O Clock in the Evening of
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Tuesday last Dept. left the deced her Child a little Girl
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about five years of Age in a Room in the Ground Floor of
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the said House while Dept. went after her husband the
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who being intoxicated with
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Liquor had gone out that Dept. went on near to Mr. Bone a few
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Doors off where
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her husband was then standing that Dept. stopped
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about ten Minutes that when
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Dept. went out she had left the decd sitting in a little them
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near the fire that on her Return upon
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Dept going
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into the Room she found the deced still sitting in the Chair
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that her Cloaths were in a Blazethat Dept immediately
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took the deced out of the Chair and got he Cloaths off an fast
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as she could-that Dept. examined the deced that she was
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very mind burnt
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down the left side of her body and
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was almost deadthat Dept. took the Shild to on Mr. Redfern
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that he was not at Home that
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