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<p n="345"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo199">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of George <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n345-1">Birks Lamp</rs>
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lighter<lb></lb>
taken on Oaths before me this first<lb></lb>
day of April 1788.</p>
<p n="346">Who being upon Oath saith that being at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo200">Saint Anns<lb></lb>
Watch house Westminster</rs>
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about half past two o Clock on Monday<lb></lb>
Morning the 24th. day of March last he heard the alarm of a Fire which he soon understood<lb></lb>
to be in <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n346-1">Little Pulteney</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo201">Street</rs>
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where he immediately went. That<lb></lb>
upon coming to the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n346-2">Daniel Clarey</rs>
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now present he perceived the Smoke issuing<lb></lb>
thro the window Shutters of the Shop Window. That the Window<lb></lb>
Shutters were soon broke down as Informant believes by one of his<lb></lb>
Fellow Servants with an Iron Crow when Informant perceived<lb></lb>
the Fire was in a room adjoining. That as soon as the Shutters<lb></lb>
were broken down he went into the Shop thro the Window and<lb></lb>
opened the Door of the Room where the Fire was but upon the<lb></lb>
Door being opened the Flames were so violent and the Fire<lb></lb>
so strong that he could not go into the Room but was obliged<lb></lb>
to retire & get of the Shop as fast as he could That there<lb></lb>
was no Goods whatever in the Shop Except a few Paste boards<lb></lb>
and Pattern Cards in the Window And is very certain that<lb></lb>
he must have seen them if there had been any as he<lb></lb>
went into the Shop purposely to find out where the Fire<lb></lb>
and to save what Property he could, That after he came<lb></lb>
out</p>
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