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<p n="1777"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1384">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
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<p n="1778">Informations of Witness taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65213_date356">25th, day<lb></lb>
of August 1773</rs>
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, at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1385">St, George Hanover<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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in the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1386">Westminster</rs>
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, at the House<lb></lb>
of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1778-1">William Mansfeild</rs>
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the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1387">Coach and<lb></lb>
Horses</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1388">Mount Street</rs>
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. Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1778-2">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ418">Gentleman</rs>
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His Majesty's Coroner for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1778-3">William Whitcome</rs>
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<lb></lb>
an Infant then and there lying Deed as follow</p>
<p n="1779"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1779-99">Jane<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Whitcome</rs>
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the Mother of the Deced Child on her Oath<lb></lb>
says that on Monday last about 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon she way<lb></lb>
Sitting in her Room in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1389">Willow Walk</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1390">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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and the Child was by her Playing, the Child went about<lb></lb>
to the Neighbours Houses as it usually did, she cooked out and saw<lb></lb>
it Mr Burck's Door 2 & 3 door<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
off, she then a little white ofter,<lb></lb>
looked again and did not see it, she then went to the Neighbours<lb></lb>
Houses to Engrone and to Several other Places about the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1391">Willow Walk</rs>
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<lb></lb>
but could not hear any thing of it, but after some time<obscured></obscured>
mr Birch<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
assisted her in searching the Ditch which Jury along the Sd. Walker<lb></lb>
and the Child was forund Drowned at some little Distance from<lb></lb>
the Deced's House, and the Deponent belevies it<obscured></obscured>
in accidentally<lb></lb>
the mark<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1779-1">Jane Whitcome</rs>
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