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Body when it wasfirft found burning ; particularly Mr. 
Gibbons from the Woman’s own Daughter, and from 2 
other Perfons living in the fame Houfe,whofe Names 
are Boy den. The Cafe was this 5 One GraceTett, a 
lifherman’s Wife, of theParifh of St. Clement's in Ipf- 
wick, aged about 60, had a Cuftom, for feveral Years 
pah, of going down-hairs every Night, after fhe was 
half undrefs’d, to fmoak a Pipe, or on fome other 
private Occafion. The Daughter, who lay with her, 
fell afleep, and did not mifs her Mother, till fhe 
awaked early in the Morning, April 10. 1744. when, 
dreffing herfelf, and going down-hairs, fhe found her 
Mother’s Body lying on the right Side, with her Head 
againf! the Grate, and extended over the Hearth, with 
her Legs on the Deal Floor, and appearing like a 
Block of Wood burning with a glowing Fire with- 
out Flame ; upon which quenching it with two Bowls 
®f Water, the Smother and Stench thereof almoft 
fiifled the Neighbours, whom her Cries had brought in ; 
the Trunk of the Body was in a manner burnt to 
Afhes, and appeared like an Heap of Charcoal cover’d 
with white Afncs; the Head, Arms, Legs and Thighs 
were alfo very much burnL 
It was Laid, that the Woman had drank very plen- 
tifully of Gin over night, on the Occafion of a Merry- 
making, on account of a Daughter who was lately come 
home from Gibraltar . But the Difficulty is to account 
for the Fire by which fhe was burnt; ftnee there was 
none in the Grate, and the Candle was burnt out in the 
Socket of the Candlehick, which flood by her; and 
a Child’s Cioaths on one Side of her, and a Paper 
Screen on the other, were both, untouch’d : And 
altho’ the melting of the Greafe had. fo penetrated 
into the Hearth, as. not to be fcour’d out, yet they 
obferved. 
