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the same he
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verily believes the said House
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was feloniously Voluntarily and Maliciously
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set on fire but by whom he cannot tell
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And this Informant
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John King
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for himself
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Saith that he is and House keeper and lives at
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No. 35 Great
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Mary le bone
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Street near were the
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William
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lived that on the 28th of September last
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about five o'Clock in the Morning he heard
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the Watchman's Rattle and looked out of
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Window when he saw a Quantity of Smoke
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Coming out of a
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Window and two Women
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with Children come out of the House of the send
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William Daken upon which this Informant
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went to the House of the said
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were he found the Street Door had be broke open
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by the Serjant of the Watch but the Smoke
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was so powerful that no person could go
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into
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the Passage
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, upon which this Informant
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with Assistance broke up the Area Rents
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and got into the House by breaking Open
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the Area Door when this Informant observed
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that the fire come from under the Stair
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leading into the Kitchen, upon which he called
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for Assistance and Water &
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in a short
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times after the fire was put out; this Informant
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found upon looking into the hole under the
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Stairs were the fire broke out the two
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