Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses Severally taken and
Acknowledged on the Behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
touching the Death of a New Born Male Child at the Dwelling
House of Samuel Bearcroft< no role > Known by the Sign of the Queens
Head in the Parish of Saint Mary le bone in the County of
Middlesex on Friday the fifth day of May in the Twenty
Sixth Year of the Begen of our Sovereign Lord George the third
before me Edward Umfreville< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Coroners
for the said County on an Inquisition then and there taken on
View of the Body of the said New Born Male Child then and
there lying Dead as follow to wit

Lewis Mullins< no role > of No 5 Crown Court Portpool Lane Grays Inn Lane Holborn
a Carrier of Parcels for the Hampstead Stage Upon his Oath Saith That on Wednesday
last he and another Boy whose Name is Jacob Taghill having been a birdnesting
in Paddington Fields were Returning from thence along the Road towards Grays
Inn Lane And Saw in a Pond on the left hand Side of the said Road Something
Swimming in the Pond which he thought was a Parcel and told his Companions
And went into the Pond and took it out and gave it to Jacob and he put it on the
Path and rolled it on the Path about a Yard or two And then Deponent Unpinosed the
Parcel and Something Came out like Wind and one hand of a Child Came out though
Deponent at first thought it was a Young Rig) Just at this Time a Manon
the Opposite Side the Road who was making Water and saw What Deponent and
his Companion were doing being Called to by them Came over And when he saw it
said Oh it is a Child the when he was on the Other Side the Road he said it was a
lump of Clay Several People Came use And After it had laid by the Side of the Pond
about half an hour the said Man (Whose Name he hath heard is John Graham< no role > )
took it to a Publick House in Order that the Parish Officers might be told of it
Saith he was told in the House that the Child Appeared to have allow on its
forehead which Graham and another Maid Said had done for it

The Mark of
Lewis Mullins< no role >