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