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<p n="1360">LondonDeposition of a Witness taken at London that is to<lb></lb>
say at the parish of Saint Helen in the ward of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1411">Bishopsgate within in London</rs>
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aforesaid this 2d. day of<lb></lb>
September 1799. on view of the body of Robert<lb></lb>
Burland a Child now here lying Dead.</p>
<p n="1361"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1361-1">William Hake</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ411">Clerk</rs>
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to Messrs. Buller & Company of Crosby<lb></lb>
square London maketh oath that about ½ past two in the<lb></lb>
afternoon of Friday last Dept. being in the Compting house at the<lb></lb>
House of Messrs. Buller & Compy as afsd. heard a Noise as of a Window<lb></lb>
being broke and upon going into the Hall of said House on the Ground<lb></lb>
floor he saw the deced lying on the stone pavement of the Hall-Dept<lb></lb>
went up Stairs and called a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ412">Carpenter</rs>
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who was<del>is</del>
in the House who<lb></lb>
came down with Dept. and took the Child up that the deced<lb></lb>
appeared dead Dept. sent<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for a Mr. Burrows a Surgeon who<lb></lb>
soon after came and on seeing the deced sayed he was quite dead<lb></lb>
Dept. observed blood came from the deced's Ear-That soon after<lb></lb>
Dept. came down Stairs with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ413">Carpenter</rs>
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on beforementioned the Mother of the deced<lb></lb>
(who with her Husband and their Children occupied<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
an upper<lb></lb>
Room in the said House while the House is repairing) came down<lb></lb>
Stairs and appeared very much concerned sayed she had seen the<lb></lb>
deced just before and had told him to grand plays and<del>the</del>
sayed she<lb></lb>
wondered how the Daor had come open meaning<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Dept<lb></lb>
understood a<obscured></obscured>
leading to the leads at the top of the House over<lb></lb>
which is a Sky light through which it was supposed the deced had fell</p>
<p n="1362"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1362-1">William Hake</rs>
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<p n="1363">Sworn this 2d. day of September<lb></lb>
1799 before me}</p>
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