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<p n="1210"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1072">Southwark</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
Thomas within the Boro. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1073">Southwark</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the 8th. day of October 1798 on view of<lb></lb>
the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1210-1">Mary Ann</rs>
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Garratt there<lb></lb>
lying dead.</p>
<p n="1211"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1211-1">Samuel Holmes</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1074">Bird Cage Walk</rs>
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Hackney<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1075">road</rs>
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in the Co. of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1076">Middx</rs>
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maketh oath that on Monday the<lb></lb>
24th. Septr. about half past 8 he heard a Child scream which<lb></lb>
occasioned dept to go round to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1077">Edey's Gardens</rs>
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which was just by<lb></lb>
when her saw the deced a Child about nine years old in the street<lb></lb>
& she ran up to Dept-That her Cloaths were in flames<lb></lb>
anor. person present took hold of the deced & led her to a pump<lb></lb>
where Dept & anor. pson pumped water upon her and extinguished<lb></lb>
the Fire. That her things were afterwards taken off her, Dept<lb></lb>
reld. home with the deced to where she lived, & there on her being<lb></lb>
asked how her cloaths had taken fire she sayed she had been<lb></lb>
reading a small book & she shot a Coat had fallen upon her frock<lb></lb>
& set it on fire Says there were only her small Children at the<lb></lb>
House besides the deced-That the House is kept by a Mr. Cruse<lb></lb>
whose Wife had the deced & the two Children before mentd. at nurse.</p>
<p n="1212">Sworn the 8th. Octr. 1798<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="1213">T: Shelton <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65011_occ489">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="1214"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1214-1">Samuel Homes</rs>
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<p n="1215"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1215-1">John Bateman</rs>
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a Dresser at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65011_geo1078">Saint Thomas's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh oath that the deced was bro't to the Hospital last<lb></lb>
Wednesday Sennight very much burned. That she was dressed the died<lb></lb>
the week following. She was so much hurt that when dept first<lb></lb>
saw her he had little hopes of her recovery.</p>
<p n="1216">Sworn the 8th. Octr. 1798<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="1217">T. Shelton Corr.}</p>
<p n="1218"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65011_n1218-1">John Bateman</rs>
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