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<p n="340"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo195">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n340-1">Francis Barrell</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
Pulteney <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n340-2">Street Porter</rs>
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taken before me this<lb></lb>
first day of April 1788.</p>
<p n="341">Who being upon Oath says that he lived next Door<lb></lb>
to the House of David otherwise Daniel <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n341-1">Clarey in Pulteney</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo196">Street</rs>
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aforesaid and that being in Bed about three o Clock on<lb></lb>
Monday Morning the 24 of March last he was awakened by<lb></lb>
a knocking at the Street Door of his House and cry of Fire<lb></lb>
That he immediatly got out of Bed and went into the Street<lb></lb>
to see where the Fire was and heard some Person in said<lb></lb>
Clareys House ask for a Pail of WaterThat Informant<lb></lb>
instantly returned to his own House & having got a Pail of<lb></lb>
Water took it into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo197">Clareys house</rs>
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where he this Informant<lb></lb>
found Mr. Gumbart in the Parlour with a Candle in her hand<lb></lb>
looking at the Grate not in the least flurried but apparently quite<lb></lb>
unconcemed,This Informant then enquired of said Gumbart<lb></lb>
where the Fire was, to which she answered, "she did not Know"<lb></lb>
That this Informant was surprized at Mr. Grumbart answer<lb></lb>
that he went back into the Street & having heard some person<lb></lb>
call for an Iron Crow to break open the Shop window, he<lb></lb>
went to his own House and got one with which He broke</p>
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