Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses Severally taken and
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
the Death of a Female Child Unknown at the Dwelling House of
Benjamin Turner< no role > known by the Sign of the King and
Queen in the Parish of Paddington
in the County of Middlesex on Saturday the fifth
Day of August in the twenty sixth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third before me
William Wilson< no role > one of his Majesty's Coroners for the
said County on an Inquisition then and there taken on View of
the Body of the said Female Child Unknown then and there lying
dead as follow to wit.

William Druitt Smith< no role > of Paddington Surgeon
upon his Oath Saith That on Thursday last in the Evening
he was sent for by a Mr. Mason of Paddington to look at the deceased
who was found in a Box in a Ditch in a field between
paddington and Bayswater on examination of
the Body found it a female Child to all Appearance
[..] born alive, being full grown and
from that circumstance, concluded it was born alive
being in too putrid a State to make any other Examinations
as Deponent apprehends it had lain in the Box three
Months.Saith there was in the Box some Oath leans
and Wheat brand.And is of opinion that the deceased
had been murdered and from what was in the Box is
further of opinion it had been put where found for the
purpose of being destroyed by Cattle.

Wm.. Dt.. Smith< no role >