City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1767 - 30th December 1767

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Image 191 of 72326th March 1767


Altham Corbertt< no role > one of the Beadles of the Parish
of St. Margaret Westmr . on his Oath Saith, That on
Tuesday last about Twelve o'Clock at Noon. Men
Servant to Mr. Street the Park Keeper at Hyde Park Corner
acquainted this Dept. that a Child lay under a Tree
in Hyde Park , in the said Parish of St. Margaret , says
that he went immediately into Hyde Park and saw
a male Child lying there naked, Says that the Child was
Dead and appeared to Dept. to have been in the Water
Says that he carried the Child the Parish Watch house in
Knights bridge , and that it was the same Child now
produced, Says that the saw no Marks of violence
upon said Child. Altham Corcett

Severally Sworn the Day Year &
Place abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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