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    1. [OXF] Fire destruction - WESTON and MACANESS ( 1798 )
    2. >From True Briton (1793) ( London, England ), Wednesday, May 30, 1798; Issue 1695. COUNTRY NEWS. OXFORD, May 26. Yesterday morning a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mary WESTON , a cottager, at Garsington, near this city, occasioned by carelessly throwing some hot cinders on a dunghill adjoining the dwelling, which in a short time kindled, and consumed that and another cottage, and communicated to a farm house and buildings belonging to Mr. J. MACANESS , which were also destroyed, together with several corn staddles, a large barn full of wheat and other grain, and several out-buildings.

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