Middlesex
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the Dwelling House of
Gaet Marmive< no role >
the Sign of the Beehive
in the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate without
in the County of Middlesex
on
Monday the 24hDay of April1786
. Before
Thomas
Phillips< no role >
Esquire
one of his Majesty's Coroners
for the said County touching
the Death of a Male Child unknown
then and there lying Dead as follow
William Pinkerton< no role >
Son of Thomas Pinkerton< no role >
Sexton
of the
above Parish upon his Oath saith That on Saturday last
as he and his Father were going to put a pair of hinges
on one of the Gates belonging to the Burial Ground
of the said Parish as soon as he came within the
Ground he saw a small Coffin laying about three
Yards from the Great Gate
in the Groundand on
upon which he took it up and carried into a Shed
in the Ground with out seeing what it contained
and immediately went and informed his Father
who afterwards went to the Ground with Mr. Ebenezer King< no role >
assistant
to Mr. Rice Davis< no role >
of Burr Street
Surgeon
in order
to examine what the said Coffin contained
William Pinkerton< no role >