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{An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
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the Faith, Etc. before
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one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
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the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Male Child New Born
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Thomas Mullett John
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Salter
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Hool Christopher Grocer,
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Coney,
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
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and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Male Child
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That Some Person or Persons to the
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Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his, her or their Eyes but
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being moved and reduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Twenty Eighth Day of July in the
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Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid in and upon the said New born male
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Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously, Wilfully
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and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did make an Assault And That the said Person or
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Persons so as aforesaid unknown the said New born Male Child in a Womans Shift Did then and
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there feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought
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5th and fold
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done then
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the said New born
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Male Child so wrapp'd up and folded as aforesaid into a certain Stream of Water situate in the
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Parish and County aforesaid Did then and there feloniously, Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice
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aforethought Cast and throw By means whereof he the said New born Male Child was in
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the said Stream of Water then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
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he the said New born Male Child then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
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Do say That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown him the said New born Male Children Manner and by the Means
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aforesaid feloniously, Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against
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the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
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In Witness whereof, as well
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the said Coroner, as the said
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the Foreman of
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the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
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Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned.
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E: Umfreville
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Thomas Mullett
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