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<p n="301"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo180">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n301-1">Sarah Bishop</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ79">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n301-2">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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who lodged in<lb></lb>
the Kitchen of Claves House taken<lb></lb>
before me this first day of April 1788</p>
<p n="302">Who being upon Oath<lb></lb>
Says that having spent the day abroad on Sunday<lb></lb>
the 23rd. of March, the Returned Home about 8 or 9<lb></lb>
O Clock in the Evening That She and her Husband<lb></lb>
soon afterwards went to Bed. but were so much<lb></lb>
disturbs by a Noise, which they heard in Clarys Shop<lb></lb>
or Ware Room, as to induce her to call out and<lb></lb>
Ask who was there, upon which Clary said it is me<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
and she Replyd. It is very well. That about<lb></lb>
an hour afterwards she heard some Person came into<lb></lb>
Clary House, at the Back door, and again call'd<lb></lb>
to know who was their and was in like manner<lb></lb>
answered by Clary that it was him,That about<lb></lb>
2 O Clock she tho<obscured></obscured>
she smelt Fire, and got out of Bed<lb></lb>
(her husband being then asleep) & opend' the Kitchen<lb></lb>
Doors which leads upon the Stair Case, when she<lb></lb>
perceivd <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo181">the Passage</rs>
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full of Smoak, and heard the<lb></lb>
cracking of Fire like Curning Deal, That She<lb></lb>
Instantly call'd her Husband and told him to get up<lb></lb>
for that there was a Fire near them, That her<lb></lb>
Husband Got out of Bed Immediately<lb></lb>
and</p>
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