Northolt

17. April 1761. The Crown
touching the death of a new born Male Child then
& there lying dead

Mary Bodyman< no role > of West End in the Parish of Hortholt
Single women . That last Wednesday Noon she went into the
back Orchard to look after her Hens & looking towards the
Pond in the Orchard & saw some what Face down wards
floating on the Water - Went & called 2 Women who
came & found what it was & they called to Mr. Stones
Man William who came & took it out of the Pond & it
appeared it was Boy

[mark] the Mark of
[..] Mary Bodyman< no role >

Mary< no role > the Wife of Saml. Atkins< no role > of West. End
Laborer confirms Mary Bodyman< no role > Says it was a fair
Boy & that it seaw'd to have a Bruise on the side of its head
& anor. near the JawThinks the infant was at its full
Growth & had never been dress'd or its Navel String tied

the Mark of
Mary [mark] Atkins< no role >

Eliz:< no role > the Wife of Robt. Pooley< no role > of West End Farmer
That this day abt. Noon Elizabeth Shepheard< no role > Servt. to Mr.
Willm. Greentree< no role > of West End Farmer confess'd to her That
she was the Mother & was delivered of the Bastard Child & that
she Threw it into the Pondconfess'd that no other Person
had any hand in it but herselfSays this confession was
made to her in the Personce of her own Mother & of Mary Shepheard< no role >
Thinks the Child at full Growth
at her Mothers House at West End.

the mark
[mark] of Eliz:
Pooley< no role > .