City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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Image 416 of 60725th August 1797


the Cloth, and found a Child was in itThat his Bart
just then came down with a Basket, and he told him
of it, and shewed it him, and sayed they had better
serve it, but his Servant sayed they had better take it,
there would be a terrible to do if it was left, and then
Examinant put it into a Basket and his Servant
carried it upandto the Cart. That he and his Servant
afterwards went home with the Cart, and when they shot
the Dust upon the heap the Child fell out upon the dust,
and Examinant mentd. it to a Woman who worked
in the Yard, and afterwards he carried the Child into
his Stable Says he then [..] facted and went out to
Work again until about two o'Clock and afterwards
he sent out for a Constable to know what he was to do
with the Child.

The [mark] Mark of
Wm. Special

Taken before me this 26th
day of August 1797 before me

T. Shelton Corr.}




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