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of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this<lb></lb>
20th. day of Jany 1797 in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo154">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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at the house<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n187-1">Thomas Jones</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo155">Sign of ye Bricklayers<lb></lb>
Arms</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo156">Duke Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo157">Grosvenor Square</rs>
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before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n187-3">Anthy Gell</rs>
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his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ73">Coroner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the sd. City and Liberty touching<lb></lb>
the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n187-2">Charles Bates</rs>
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an Infant<lb></lb>
Aged <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
two Years and six months then & there lying<lb></lb>
dead as follow. to Wit</p>
<p n="188"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n188-1">Elizth. Bates</rs>
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the Mother of the deceased being sworn deposeth<lb></lb>
that her Husband herself and Family lodge at No. 9 in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo158">Chandler<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo159">Duke Street</rs>
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Sunday morning last (the 15th. Instant) about 9 o'Clock that she<lb></lb>
went out of her Room down Stairs for a Pitcher of<lb></lb>
Water & left the deceased in the Room and she returned<lb></lb>
up Stairs in about three minutes and when she came<lb></lb>
into the Room she found the Child all in a Flame<lb></lb>
upon which she caught hold of the childs arm and a<lb></lb>
Woman that followed her up Stairs wrapped him<lb></lb>
up in her Apron and extingiushed the Flames and<lb></lb>
sent for Mr. Robinson of Duke Street Surgeon and<lb></lb>
Apothecary and be tried every means for the Childs<lb></lb>
Recovey but without the desired Effect as the deceased<lb></lb>
expired on the Tuesday morning following (the 17th. Intt.)</p>
<p n="189"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n189-1">Elizabeth Bates</rs>
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