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Image 460 of 46123rd December 1785


Middlesex
to wit}


Informations of Witnesses severally
Taken and Acknowledged the Twenty third
day of December in the Twenty sixth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third King of Great Britain
EtcAt the House of William Eaton< no role >
known by the Name of the Lock house
in the Parish of Enfield in the said
County before Thomas Phillips< no role > One
of the Coroners for the said County
on view of the Body of a new born
Male Child then and there lying
Dead as follow (to wit)

James Newton< no role > of Ware in the
County of Hertford Bargeman Saith
That last Tuesday about Eleven oClock
in the Morning Informant was in
a Barge in the River Lee going
from London and found The deceased
Floating in a Plaw called the Eddy Reach
near Enfield Lock
That it was in the Basket
now Produced which this Informant
hath Marked at bottom
That there was some StrawInformant
in the Basket and nothing else
That the Basket was sewed up from
One End to the Other with small




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