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