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<p n="320"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo340">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo341">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken this Eighth<lb></lb>
day of March 1765 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo342">Parish of St. Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo343">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo344">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition taken<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of a New born Male Child<lb></lb>
lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="321"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n321-1">Edward Parrott</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65205_occ132">Surgeon</rs>
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in Lancaster Court in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo345">St. Martins in the Fields</rs>
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on his Oath saith, that<lb></lb>
he Examined the Deced this day, and is of Opinion that<lb></lb>
the said Male Child was not come to Maturity and that<lb></lb>
the said Male Child was born Dead and Says that he<lb></lb>
found no Marks of Violence upon the Body of the said Child.</p>
<p n="322"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n322-1">Edward Parrott</rs>
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<p n="323"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n323-1">James Rawlins</rs>
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one of the Watchmen belonging to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo346">St. Martin's Parish</rs>
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on his Oath saith that between Nine<lb></lb>
and ten o Clock last Night Deponent was in the Watchhouse belonging<lb></lb>
to said Parish, and that a Man (which he believes to be<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n323-2">John Newell</rs>
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) there said that a Coffin lay in the Church<lb></lb>
Yard with a Dead Child in it, Says that he and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n323-3">John<lb></lb>
Newell</rs>
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immediately went into the Church Yard and there<lb></lb>
found near <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo347">St. Martins Church</rs>
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on the South side thereof <obscured></obscured>
Coffin, which Deced<lb></lb>
opened and then found a Male Child therein, in a<lb></lb>
Shroud<del>and saw Dust under it,</del>
Dept. says that the<lb></lb>
Child was Dead, but Dept. thought that it was not quite Cold,<lb></lb>
Says that they left the Child there and returned into<lb></lb>
the Watch house, Says that the Beadle sent said John<lb></lb>
Newell from the watch house to the Church Wardens for<lb></lb>
an Order to remove the Child, Says that in about a<lb></lb>
Quarter of an hour said Newell, returned with an<lb></lb>
Order from the Church Wardens and brought the Coffin<lb></lb>
with the Deced in it into the Watchhouse, Says that soon<lb></lb>
after Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n323-4">John Newell</rs>
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took away the said Child to<lb></lb>
carry it into the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65205_geo348">Workhouse</rs>
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as Dept. believes.</p>
<p n="324">Severally Sworn the Day, Year,<lb></lb>
& Place abovementioned, before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n324-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="325">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65205_n325-1">James Rawlins</rs>
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