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<p n="1947"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1861">City & Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1862">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Third day of<lb></lb>
November 1766 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1863">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1864">Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1865">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on an Inquisition touching the Death of a Newborn<lb></lb>
Child lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="1948"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1948-1">William Norton</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1866">the Strand</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1867">Parish of St. Martin in<lb></lb>
the Fields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ616">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath saith, That he this day<lb></lb>
Examined a Child in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1868">Workhouse</rs>
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of said Parish, which is<lb></lb>
very much dried, and appears to have been dead two months<lb></lb>
or upwards, Says that the Child is a full grown Child, but<lb></lb>
Dept. cannot say whether said Child was born alive, or not<lb></lb>
nor does there appear any Mark of Violence upon said Child</p>
<p n="1949"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1949-1">Wm Norton</rs>
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<p n="1950"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1950-1">Elizabeth Martin</rs>
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in the Wife of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1950-2">Alexander Martin</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1869">Castle Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1870">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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, on her Oath saith, That<lb></lb>
last Night about a Quarter before Nine o'Clock Maldm. Byrne a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ617">Watchman</rs>
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called this Dept. who was in her own House, saying<lb></lb>
that there was a Box in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1871">the Passage</rs>
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adjoining to Depts. House<lb></lb>
Says that she went but and gave a Wooden Box lye in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1872">the<lb></lb>
Passage</rs>
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, Nailed down & his with a Ribband Says that she called some Neighbours<lb></lb>
who opened the Box, and found a Child therein wrapped<lb></lb>
in a piece of flannel, Says that the Child was Dead and<lb></lb>
appeared to have been Dead some time, being very much dried<lb></lb>
Says that she soon after sent to Watchman to acquaint the<lb></lb>
Officers of the Parish therewith,<del>Says that Mr. Thorne the County<lb></lb>
of the Night and George Barn the Watchman come there<lb></lb>
a very short time and to</del>
and then went to Bed leaving the<lb></lb>
Child in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo1873">the Passage</rs>
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<p n="1951">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n1951-1">Elizabeth Martin</rs>
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