City & Liberty of
Westmr : in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Fourteenth day of
February 1765 at the Parish of St. Ann within
the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex
on an Inquisition taken on View of the Body of a New
born Female Child lying Dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

John Bullock< no role > a Lodger at Mr. Mc. Demoth in Buckeridge
Court Buckeridge Street, in the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields
in the County of Middlesex , and one of the Watchmen of the Parish
of St. Ann within the Liberty of Westmr. on his Oath saith, That
as he was going along his Walk last Night, calling half an
hour after ten o' Clock, and in a Place called Cranbourn
Alley in the said Parish he saw something black lye upon
some Bubbish by the side of Mr. William Paul< no role > 's House,
which Dept. thought to be a black Cat, Says that he took it
up in his hand and found it to be a Female Child wrapt
in a piece of Linnen Cloth which was Bloody, and Covered
with a piece of Black Silk pinned copy close Says that the Child was Dead
but not quite Cold, Says that several of the Neighbours
come together, and Dept. left them there with the Deced
and Dept. went to acquaint Mr. Acton one of the Overseers
with what he had found, Says that Mr. Acton ordered Dept
to carry the Deced to the Watch house belonging to the said
Parish, Says that he carried the Deced to the Watch house
immediately, and that Francis Miller< no role > another Watchman
was sent from thence for Mr. Allen the Parish Surgeon, Says
that a Surgeon belonging to Mr. Allen came to the Watch house
and Examined the Deced in the presence of Dept. and said
that he found no Marks of Violence upon the Deced, Deponent
says that the Deced was Bloody, but Deponent observed no
Marks of Violence upon the Deced.

John Bullock< no role >

Francis Dickin< no role > a Surgeon , Journeymen to Mr. Allen
a Surgeon in Charles Street , Soho, in the Parish of St. Ann on
his Oath saith, That between ten and eleven o' Clock last Night
one of the Watchman of said Parish came to Mr. Allen's and
desired some Person to come to the Watch house to see a Child
that lay there, Dept. says that he went to the Watch house and
found