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City and Liberty
of Westminster }
to wit.


Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign
Lord the King, touching the Death of a New Born
Female Child, at the Dwelling House of W. William
Cummins
< no role > known by the Sign of the Black Horse in
Oxendon Street in the Parish of Saint Martin in the
Fields in the Liberty of Westminster , on the second day
of May in the Twenty first Year of the Regin of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third Before me Thomas
Prickard
< no role > Gentleman His Majesty's Coroner for the
said Liberty of Westminster , or an Inquisition then and
there taken or View of the Body of a New Born Female
Child then and there lying Dead as follow, to wit.

John Thomas< no role > of Great Newport Street Long Acre in the Parish of
Saint Martin in the Fields , Surgeon, on his Oath saith, that about
Six o'Clock Yesterday Evening, he was called for to look at a Child-
that was Dead, and to declare whether it [..] was still Born, and
in a short time afterwards Deponent went to where the Child was,
at a House No. 5 in Coventry Court near the Haymarket , the Person
who came was a Bedel of St. Martin's Parish , Deponent Examined
the Body of the Child, found it appear to be a full Grown Child, and upon
opening the Body discovered that it had lived and breathed, having
made




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