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<p n="1688"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Deposition</note>
of Witnesses taken at London, that is to<lb></lb>
says at the parish of Saint Michael<lb></lb>
Queenhite in the Ward of Queenshithe<lb></lb>
in London aforesaid</p>
<p n="1689"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1689-1">Elizabeth Wife</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_n1689-1" type="surname" value="Wife"></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_n1689-1" type="gender" value="unknown"></interp>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1689-2">John Ward</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_n1689-2" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_n1689-2" type="surname" value="Ward"></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_n1689-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ650">Sawyer</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_occ650" type="occupation" value="Sawyer"></interp>
and a Lodger<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1713">No.</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_geo1713" type="placeName" value="No."></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_geo1713" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
2 Coffeehouse Alley <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1714">Upper Thames Street</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_geo1714" type="placeName" value="Upper Thames Street"></interp>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_geo1714" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
London<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that about ½ part six O Clock in the Evening of<lb></lb>
Tuesday last Dept. left the deced her Child a little Girl<lb></lb>
about five years of Age in a Room in the Ground Floor of<lb></lb>
the said House while Dept. went after her husband the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ651">Father</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_occ651" type="occupation" value="Father"></interp>
of the deced<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
who being intoxicated with<lb></lb>
Liquor had gone out that Dept. went on near to Mr. Bone a few<lb></lb>
Doors off where<del>she found</del>
her husband was then standing that Dept. stopped<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about ten Minutes that when<lb></lb>
Dept. went out she had left the decd sitting in a little them<lb></lb>
near the fire that on her Return upon<del>opening</del>
Dept going<lb></lb>
into the Room she found the deced still sitting in the Chair<lb></lb>
that her Cloaths were in a Blazethat Dept immediately<lb></lb>
took the deced out of the Chair and got he Cloaths off an fast<lb></lb>
as she could-that Dept. examined the deced that she was<lb></lb>
very mind burnt<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
down the left side of her body and<lb></lb>
was almost deadthat Dept. took the Shild to on Mr. Redfern<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ652">Surgeon</rs>
<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_occ652" type="occupation" value="Surgeon"></interp>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1715">Old Fish Street</rs>
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<interp inst="LMCLIC65005_geo1715" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
that he was not at Home that<lb></lb>
by the time Dept. got there the Child was quite dead</p>
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