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To wit </note>
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{An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint<obscured></obscured>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo583">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65101_date83">thirty first Day of July in the 22d Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third</rs>
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, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of<lb></lb>
the Faith, Etc. before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-1">Edward Umfreville</rs>
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one of the Coroners of Our said Lord<lb></lb>
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Male Child New Born<lb></lb>
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Thomas Mullett John<lb></lb>
Salter <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-3">James Hall</rs>
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Ingram <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-4">Sinclair Samuel</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-5">Garnet Stephen</rs>
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Hool Christopher Grocer, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-6">Swan Keene</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-7">John Buckingham</rs>
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Samuel<lb></lb>
Coney, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-8">James Steward</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-9">John Jones</rs>
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, James Callcutt and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n544-10">James Bedard</rs>
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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<lb></lb>
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Male Child<lb></lb>
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came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That Some Person or Persons to the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his, her or their Eyes but<lb></lb>
being moved and reduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Twenty Eighth Day of July in the<lb></lb>
Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid in and upon the said New born male<lb></lb>
Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously, Wilfully<lb></lb>
and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did make an Assault And That the said Person or<lb></lb>
Persons so as aforesaid unknown the said New born Male Child in a Womans Shift Did then and<lb></lb>
there feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought<obscured></obscured>
5th and fold<obscured></obscured>
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<del>done then</del>
the said New born<lb></lb>
Male Child so wrapp'd up and folded as aforesaid into a certain Stream of Water situate in the<lb></lb>
Parish and County aforesaid Did then and there feloniously, Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice<lb></lb>
aforethought Cast and throw By means whereof he the said New born Male Child was in<lb></lb>
the said Stream of Water then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said New born Male Child then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid<lb></lb>
Do say That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown him the said New born Male Children Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid feloniously, Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against<lb></lb>
the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity</p>
<p n="545"> In Witness whereof, as well<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n545-1">Thomas Mullett</rs>
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the Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned.</p>
<p n="546">E: Umfreville<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Coronr.</p>
<p n="547">Thomas Mullett<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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