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Image 44 of 21327th June 1718


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Informacon Indented taken at the Parish of St Gyles Cripplegate in the ward of Cripplegate
London the 27th Day of June 1718 [..] before George Rivers< no role > Esqr . Coroner of the Sayd City on
were of Body of a Certaine Male Infant then & there lying Dead by the Oathes of

Will Cook< no role > John Hoskins< no role > John Hinges< no role > Robert Higgs< no role >
Daniel Webb< no role > Susn: Mercer< no role > Tho: Pomfrit< no role > Fran: Humerston< no role >
Mathew Jackson< no role > Will: Rogers< no role > Will: Archer< no role > John Gryenes< no role >
Joseph Springwell< no role > John Burgin< no role > John Mason< no role > John Hyde< no role > & Will: Wood< no role >

Good & Lawfull men of the sd City who say upon their Oatter That Jane Flintoff< no role >
Late of London Spinster [..] being great with Childe of the sd male Infant afterward
that is to say on the 29th day of March Last at the Parish of St Gyles Cripplegate
aforesayd sayd male Infant from her own body by the Previdence of God did bring
forth alive which male Infant so born alive by the Law of the Land was a bastard &
thereof Jane Flintoff< no role > to from or told male bastard Infant born not haveing to sew of God Etc till price &
arse, Etc at the parish Etc in & upon the sd male bastard Infant Feloniously
willfully Etc did made an assault & used male bastard Infant to being alive into
both her hands Feloniously willfull Etc did take & these male bastard Infant into
a Certaine house or Office Filled with excrement: & all filtb Feloniously willfully
did Cast & there or wherein the sd male bustard Infant did then & there Infant by become
Choked Suffocate & Straugled they fynde be Guilty of murder but fynd no
goods Chatterly Lands a hereunto In wittness Etc

Pray let the bill the made again Mr Munday
Swole wittness will then came to Guild Hall to
Fyude it

Pray draw a bill of Murder for the
Same.




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