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<p n="1040"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo534">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1040-1">Mary Davis</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ340">Servt</rs>
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. to The Rt. Honble The Countless<lb></lb>
Dowager of Effingham</p>
<p n="1041">Who being upon Oath says that She lives in the house with sd.<lb></lb>
Lady Effingham in George Street Hanover Square that the Ground<lb></lb>
Floor of sd. House consists of, one Hall, two Parlours, one<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
behind the<lb></lb>
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the other, that out of the back Parlour is a Closet and a<lb></lb>
Dressing Room, that in the said Dressing Room which is on the<lb></lb>
right hand of the back Parlour and has a door opening into the<lb></lb>
said Parlour <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1041-1">Thomas Holland</rs>
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her Ladyship's late <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ341">Butler</rs>
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lays that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
on the left hand of said back Parlour<lb></lb>
was a Closet which opened into the sd. Parlour, that in said Closet<lb></lb>
was a Bureau with a Book Case upon it which stood up against<lb></lb>
the Wainscot, says that on the 18th.. of May last at about half an<lb></lb>
hour after one in the Morning She went into the said Closet with a<lb></lb>
Candle in her hand and put her Lady ship's Pincushion into a <lb></lb>
little Drawer in the front of said Bureau, says that at this time<lb></lb>
the Bureau was not broke open or angrivd defaced, that when She<lb></lb>
left said Closet every thing appeared to her to be safe and quiet, says that She<lb></lb>
then went down stairs to examine the back door which finding safe<lb></lb>
She then went to Bed, says that about 3 the same Morning She was awaked<lb></lb>
by the Ringing of the Bell, says that She got out of Bed opened her Room<lb></lb>
door asked what was the matter when said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1041-2">Thomas Holland</rs>
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from<lb></lb>
below answd. that there was Fire in the house that She asked when<lb></lb>
and that he told her in the back Parlour, says that She soon after<lb></lb>
came down Stairs, that the said Fire by the timely assistance of the<lb></lb>
Firemen and other lied it was extinguished, and had not<lb></lb>
penitrated farther than through the floor of the Closet adjoining to<lb></lb>
her Lady ship's Bed Room though it burnt the Wainscot of the Closet<lb></lb>
below, says that She soon after saw the sd. Bureau, that the front part of<lb></lb>
said Bureau was entirely perfect excepting the Lid of it which appeared<lb></lb>
to be cut with a knife in order to open it, says that the back part of<lb></lb>
said Bureau was consumed, says She was present the same day<lb></lb>
when two half Crowns, one of them a fresh one and a Sailor<lb></lb>
Great was found on the Person of said Holland<lb></lb>
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