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<p n="1661"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1389">City & Liberty of <lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1390">County <lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Thirteenth day of July<lb></lb>
1767 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1391">Parish of St. George</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1393">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, on<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the Death of a Male<lb></lb>
Infant Child lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1662"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1662-1">Jane Hardy</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65207_occ510">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1662-2">Slaughter Hardy</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1394">Willow<lb></lb>
Walk</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1395">Parish of St. George</rs>
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on her<lb></lb>
Oath saith, That her Son <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1662-3">Thomas Hardy</rs>
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a Lad about<lb></lb>
Twelve Years of Age, went out of this Depts. House to gether<lb></lb>
Worms for his Birds Yesterday Morning between Seven<lb></lb>
and eight o'Clock, Says that he returned in a few Minutes<lb></lb>
and told this Dept. that a Man had just pulled a Ban Box<lb></lb>
out of the Ditch with a Child in it, upon which<del>Dept.</del>
<lb></lb>
Dept. went to the Child and saw it Dead in the Bandles<lb></lb>
and appeared to Dept. to have been Drowned, there being<lb></lb>
a large Quantity of Water in the Ditch from whence it was<lb></lb>
taken, Says that the said Child was tied round with<lb></lb>
Strings in three different parts, Vizt. around the Body, with<lb></lb>
the Hands confined, about the Knees, and about the Ancle<lb></lb>
and Says that the Child was a Male Child</p>
<p n="1663">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1663-1">Jane Hardy</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1664"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1664-1">William North</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1397">Parish of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1398">Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65207_occ511">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath saith, That he this day Examined a<lb></lb>
Male Child and is of Opinion that he was either Drow<lb></lb>
or Suffocated in a Band Box</p>
<p n="1665"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n1665-1">Willm: North</rs>
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