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<p n="90">the same he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
verily believes the said House<lb></lb>
was feloniously Voluntarily and Maliciously<lb></lb>
set on fire but by whom he cannot tell<lb></lb>
And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n90-1">John King</rs>
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for himself<lb></lb>
Saith that he is and House keeper and lives at<lb></lb>
No. 35 Great <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo55">Mary le bone</rs>
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Street near were the<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n90-2">William<lb></lb>
Dakin</rs>
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lived that on the 28th of September last<lb></lb>
about five o'Clock in the Morning he heard<lb></lb>
the Watchman's Rattle and looked out of<lb></lb>
Window when he saw a Quantity of Smoke<lb></lb>
Coming out of a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Window and two Women<lb></lb>
with Children come out of the House of the send<lb></lb>
William Daken upon which this Informant<lb></lb>
went to the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n90-3">William Dakin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
were he found the Street Door had be broke open<lb></lb>
by the Serjant of the Watch but the Smoke<lb></lb>
was so powerful that no person could go<lb></lb>
into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo56">the Passage</rs>
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, upon which this Informant<lb></lb>
with Assistance broke up the Area Rents<lb></lb>
and got into the House by breaking Open<lb></lb>
the Area Door when this Informant observed<lb></lb>
that the fire come from under the Stair<lb></lb>
leading into the Kitchen, upon which he called<lb></lb>
for Assistance and Water &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
in a short<lb></lb>
times after the fire was put out; this Informant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
found upon looking into the hole under the<lb></lb>
Stairs were the fire broke out the two</p>
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