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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo853">without Bishopsgate</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo854">Bishopsgate without in London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date209">tenth day of July</rs>
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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the<lb></lb>
Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n923-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo855">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo856">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of a female Child now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n923-4">William Sylveston</rs>
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Joseph Irons <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n923-6">William Cook</rs>
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Thomas Blatch<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n923-16">John Jarman</rs>
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James Heddington and <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n923-17">Richard Roberts</rs>
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good and lawful<lb></lb>
men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo857">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how<lb></lb>
and in what manner the said female Child came to its death say upon their oath That a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is<lb></lb>
as yet unknown being beg with a certain female Child the said female Child alone and secretly from her body by the Providence of God<lb></lb>
did bring forth alive And that a certain person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the fear of God before<lb></lb>
his, her, or their eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil on the ninth day of July in the year aforesaid<lb></lb>
with force and arms at London that is to say at the parish and Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo858">London</rs>
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aforesaid in and upon the said female<lb></lb>
Child in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice afore thought<lb></lb>
did make an Assault and that the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown to tie the navel string of the<lb></lb>
said female Child so then lately before born of the body of her the said person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown<lb></lb>
as aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of his his her or their malice aforethought did neglect refuse and omit<lb></lb>
by reason whereof divers large quantities of blood did then and there emit and issue forth out of the body of the said female Child<lb></lb>
and the said female Child by reason of the emitting and issuing forth of the blood from its body as aforesaid and from the<lb></lb>
loss thereof then and there became and was mortally sick and weak in its body of which said mortal sickness and weakness the said<lb></lb>
female Child did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons<lb></lb>
to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown the said female Child in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of<lb></lb>
his her or their malice aforethought did kill and murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and dignity<lb></lb>
And that the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown at the time of committing the felony and murder<lb></lb>
aforesaid had no goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo859">City of London</rs>
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or elsewere to the knowledge of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further say that after the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
unknown had done and committed the felony and murder aforesaid he she or they withdrew himself herself or themselves<lb></lb>
and fled for the same In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n924-5">Benjm. Clitherow</rs>
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