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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1503-1">John Pickering</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1147">Fleet Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1148">London</rs>
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Coffin Plate Maker Who, being on Oath, saith<lb></lb>
on the Wednesday that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1149">the Fleet</rs>
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was set on fire at the<lb></lb>
duck of the Evening going into the Bare of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1150">the Fleet</rs>
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he stood at the bottom of the Steps in the Yard he saw<lb></lb>
several persons throwing fire<del>into</del>
from off the Fire<lb></lb>
in the Bare, into the Cellar of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1151">the Fleet</rs>
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, says he believes<lb></lb>
there were not thirty in the whole place and those chiefly<lb></lb>
Boys, he directly went up to the place where they were<lb></lb>
throwing fire into, in order if possible to have stop't the<lb></lb>
mischief then going forward, says that on his going up<lb></lb>
he saw <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1503-2">Francis Rowley</rs>
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, the Prisoner now under<lb></lb>
Examination, throwing Fire into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1152">the Fleet</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ462">Cellar</rs>
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along with the Boys, when he came near the said Rowley<lb></lb>
he knew him extremely well by sight but did not know<lb></lb>
his Name, and directly said to him," what in the name<lb></lb>
of God can induce you to be concerned in such a horrid<lb></lb>
Scene as this, Prisoner directly put out his Hand to him<lb></lb>
and this Informant shook Hands with him, says Prisoner<lb></lb>
declared he thought he knew Informant by sight,<lb></lb>
Informant told Prisoner that he was the last Man that<lb></lb>
he could think would be concerned in such a thing as this<lb></lb>
or words to that Effect, says he saw that there were<lb></lb>
people in the Cellar to carry the Fire to other parts of<lb></lb>
the Prison as fast as it was thrown in there, says he<lb></lb>
turn'd his head to the left to see where the Fire could be<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ463">carried</rs>
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to, and observed it was carried into one of the bottom<lb></lb>
Rooms pretty near the middle of the Prison, he immediately<lb></lb>
turn'd from the Prisoner to look into the Room and saw<lb></lb>
there was too much Fire there for him to put out, he<lb></lb>
ran immediately away to his own house, told the<lb></lb>
Neighbours he met that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1153">the Fleet</rs>
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was all on Fire and he was affraid<lb></lb>
that they should all be burn't down,<del>directly</del>
on the Friday<lb></lb>
following he this Informant described the prisoner to Dyer and<lb></lb>
Grove the Turnkeys of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1154">the Fleet</rs>
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Prison, says that he<lb></lb>
described the Prisoner in the following manner Viz:</p>
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