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<p n="3124"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2156">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses Severally taken<lb></lb>
and acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord<lb></lb>
the King, touching the Death of a New Born Female Child<lb></lb>
at the Dwelling House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3124-1">Theophilus Sawyer</rs>
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, Known<lb></lb>
by the Sign of the Three Blue Posts the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2157">Corner of Edward<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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facing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2158">Broad Street</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint James<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2159">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2160">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on the 19th. day of August in the 24th, Year of the Reign<lb></lb>
of our Sovereign Lord <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3124-2">King George</rs>
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the Third. Before the<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3124-3">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ755">Coroner</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2161">Westminster</rs>
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, on an Inquisition then<lb></lb>
and there taken on View of the Body of the said New<lb></lb>
Born Female Child then and there lying Dead as follow<lb></lb>
to wit.</p>
<p n="3125"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3125-1">Sarah Tomlinson</rs>
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Wife of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3125-2">William Tomlinson</rs>
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No. 8, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3125-3">Edward<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2162">St. James's</rs>
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Westmr. Broker on her Oath saith, that yesterday about<lb></lb>
ten o'Clock in the Morning, Mrs. Sawyer the Mistress of the three Blue<lb></lb>
Posts Public House next door sent for her, to come to her House as she<lb></lb>
thought the Maid was in Labour and she wanted the Deponent to ask<lb></lb>
her if she was with Child, and Deponent came, and Mrs. Sawyer and<lb></lb>
she went up stairs into the Maid's Room and saw her sitting on the<lb></lb>
side of the Bed with her Clothes on and challenged her that she was in<lb></lb>
Labour, she replied she was not, she was not with Child, and insisted<lb></lb>
upon it several timesDeponent and Mrs. Sawyer then come down<lb></lb>
Stairs again and told Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ756">Sawyer</rs>
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the Keeper of the Public House,<lb></lb>
he had better sent for the Parish Officers, as Deponent thought it</p>
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