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<p n="2023"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1703">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1704">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
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<p n="2024">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1705">Parish of St Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1706">St Peter. Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65207_geo1707">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty fifth day of September in the Seventh Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, On View of the Body of <lb></lb>
a New born Female child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-2">Edmund<lb></lb>
Ball</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-3">Thomas Reid</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-4">William Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-5">John Morgan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-16">Andrew Emos</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-6">Robert<lb></lb>
Saunders</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-7">Edward Edwards</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-8">John Jobbins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-9">Samuel Foulder</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-10">Joseph<lb></lb>
Brown</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-11">David Francis Le Cuyer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-17">Benjamin Ixers</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-12">John Smith</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-13">Richard<lb></lb>
Kent</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-14">Daniel Lynch</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by that what Means the said new born female child came to <lb></lb>
her Death do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty third day of September in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did<lb></lb>
bear and bring forth the said Female Child alive, and that on the Same day<lb></lb>
and year a certain Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet<lb></lb>
unknown, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforeasaid, in and upon the said Female Child, in<lb></lb>
the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being<lb></lb>
Feloniously willfuly and of his her or their Malice fore thought, did make<lb></lb>
as Assault; and that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
unknown did then and there feloniously wilfully and of his her or their<lb></lb>
Malice fore thought Choak and Strangle the said Female Child, of which<lb></lb>
said Choaking and strangling the said Female Child then and there<lb></lb>
instantly died, And that the said Person or Persons unknown of<lb></lb>
his her or their Malice Forethought the Female child aforesaid, in<lb></lb>
Manner and form aforesaid did then and there Kill and Murder,<lb></lb>
against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Diginity<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof ad well the said Coronor, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2024-15">Edmund Ball</rs>
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foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself,<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written</p>
<p n="2025">The PrickardCoronor<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65207_n2025-1">Edmund Ball</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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