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LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London that is to
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aforesaid this 2d. day of
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September 1799. on view of the body of Robert
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Burland a Child now here lying Dead.
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William Hake
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to Messrs. Buller & Company of Crosby
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square London maketh oath that about ½ past two in the
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afternoon of Friday last Dept. being in the Compting house at the
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House of Messrs. Buller & Compy as afsd. heard a Noise as of a Window
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being broke and upon going into the Hall of said House on the Ground
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floor he saw the deced lying on the stone pavement of the Hall-Dept
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went up Stairs and called a
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who was
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in the House who
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came down with Dept. and took the Child up that the deced
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appeared dead Dept. sent
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for a Mr. Burrows a Surgeon who
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soon after came and on seeing the deced sayed he was quite dead
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Dept. observed blood came from the deced's Ear-That soon after
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Dept. came down Stairs with the
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on beforementioned the Mother of the deced
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(who with her Husband and their Children occupied
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an upper
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Room in the said House while the House is repairing) came down
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Stairs and appeared very much concerned sayed she had seen the
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deced just before and had told him to grand plays and
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sayed she
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Dept
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understood a
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leading to the leads at the top of the House over
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which is a Sky light through which it was supposed the deced had fell
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William Hake
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Sworn this 2d. day of September
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1799 before me}
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