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<p n="1553">London-Deposition of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say, at the parish of Saint Catherine<lb></lb>
Cree in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1498">Ward of Aldgate</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this 4th. day of November 1797<lb></lb>
on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1553-1">Elizabeth Gibbs</rs>
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now<lb></lb>
here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1554">Ann Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1554-1">James Gibbs</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1499">No. Aryel Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1500">Leadenhall Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ704">Taylor</rs>
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maketh Oath between nine & ten on Tuesday Morning last<lb></lb>
Dept. last her House to go to Market and left the deced he Daus<lb></lb>
who was about<del>or</del>
three years of Age and a Little Boy<obscured></obscured>
ten with hee in the lower Room a fire in the<lb></lb>
Room-Dept. has a man & his Wife who lodge in the one pair<lb></lb>
of Stairs whom Dept. believes were at Home at the time<lb></lb>
That in about half an house Dept. returned<del>and found the Street<lb></lb>
Door open</del>
to the end of the Court where she lives with a Load<lb></lb>
upon her head and a Woman standing there<obscured></obscured>
sayed to<lb></lb>
Dept. your Child in Dead-Dept. got her Load off her head &<lb></lb>
went to he house and finding her Street Door open she went<lb></lb>
up<obscured></obscured>
nd down the Court & seeing some people opposite a house in<lb></lb>
the Court Dept. Went in upon going in the Child cryed one<lb></lb>
and suyed<obscured></obscured>
my Mammy My<obscured></obscured>
llammy-that a Dorton<lb></lb>
having been sent for came Dept. took the Child in her Lop<lb></lb>
and asked the deced how she came to go to the fine. the deced<lb></lb>
sayed she went to the fire to warm her frock-That the<lb></lb>
Surgeon examined the deced while the was in Depts. Lap that<lb></lb>
she was very much burned on the left side from her Cheek<lb></lb>
downwards to her<obscured></obscured>
That the deced lived until<lb></lb>
yesterday afternoon between four & five when she departed this<lb></lb>
Life-</p>
<p n="1555">Died 3rd Novr.</p>
<p n="1556"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1556-1">Ann Gibbs</rs>
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