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<p n="1620"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Deposition of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say at the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1620-1">Saint Augustine</rs>
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in the Ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1715">Farringdon</rs>
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within in London aforesaid<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date373">28th. day of November 1794</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1620-2">Margaret Harris</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1621"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1621-1">Robert Brown</rs>
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a Writer lodging at Mrs. Harvey<lb></lb>
No. 1 Little Carter Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1716">Doctors Commons</rs>
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maketh Oath<lb></lb>
that He hath known the deced between five & six Weeks<lb></lb>
that she was a Widow that she used to Wark & Chair for<lb></lb>
Mr. Ward who rents Apartments in the House of Mr. Nichol of No. 38 Old Chang<obscured></obscured>
by whom Dept.<lb></lb>
has been employed some time past that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the<lb></lb>
deced was employed at Mr. Ward's on Tuesday last<lb></lb>
in cleaning Mr. Ward's Room<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that between seven<lb></lb>
& eight Dept. took some Milk up to the deced That she<lb></lb>
was then sitting in the three pair of Stairs front Room<lb></lb>
<del>that she was then sitting</del>
by the Fire</p>
<p n="1622"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1622-1">Robert Brown</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1623">Ann Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1623-1">John Tibble</rs>
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of No. 38 Old Chain London<lb></lb>
maketh Oath that a little before Eleven on Tuesday Night<lb></lb>
last on Dept. going up to her Room a three pair of stairs<lb></lb>
<del>Front</del>
back Room of No. 38 she observed a great light in<lb></lb>
the front Room opposite to Depts. Dept. put her shoulder<lb></lb>
against the Door & burst it open that Flames of Fire<lb></lb>
burst out of the RoomDept. immediately gave the<lb></lb>
alarm that soon after some Engines came and about<lb></lb>
One O'Clock the Fire was got underthat all the upper<lb></lb>
Part of the House was burnt that the next Morning<lb></lb>
some part of a afternoon Body was thrown out of the Window<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
which was thought to be a part of Mrs. Harris the deced.</p>
<p n="1624">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1624-1">Ann<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Tibble</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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