City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Fourth day
of December 1776 at the Parish of St. James
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching
the death of a new born Male Child lying
dead in the said Parish Liberty and County

Wentworth Ogle< no role > of Walbrook London Surgeon
on his Oath saith That Mr. Hudson of Pall Well
yesterday called at Dept. Hearse and desired
him to came to Mr. Hudson's to Advise with
time about a disagreeable Cricumstance which
had happened in his family, Says that he
went is Mr. Kudson between two and three o'Clock
yesterday Afternoon, when he was informed by Mr. Hudson
that Margaret King< no role > a Servant , for whom
they had a great regard, had been delivered
of a Child the preceding Saturday Evening,
and desired Dept. to go with her to Examine
the Child, in order to know whether any
violence had been offered to it, upon which
he went with Mrs. Hudon into Margaret
King< no role > 's Room three pair of Stairs, (where said
King had before declared her Child was in
a Box) Says tha Box was taken from under
her Bed that King produced the Key and
the Box was unlocked in Depts. presence,
where he found a Male Child in the Box
dead, and wrapped up in a piece of Linnen
Cloth, says that he Examined the Child and found
no Marke of examine thereupon, but desired that some
other Gentlemen of the Faculty night be called
in, and Dr. Pinkstan and Dr. Hunter were
fetched who likewise Examined the Child