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

Informations taken this Seventeenth
day of September 1783 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 and of a new
born Female Child severally lying dead
in the said Parish Liberty and County.

John Dunch< no role > Watchman in the Parish of St.
James Westmr . on his Oath saith, That on Monday
Night last the fifteenth Instant as he was
calling the house of Ten in Saville Passage
in said Parish,he sawat the bottom of the
Passage on the left hand sid he saw a
Bundle at a Shop Door, on the Ground, Says
that he took it up and carried it to Mrs.
Jenkin's in Boyle Street where he opened
it and found two dead Children a Male
and Female,wrappedSowed up in a Woollen
Petticoat, or part of one, Says that the
Children looked Bloody but Dept. did not
observe any Marks of violence upon
them or either of them Says that he
carried the Children to the Watch house
and left them there

John Dunch< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

Lucy Nutt< no role > of Little Vine Street Spinster
on her Oath saith, That she was in St. James's
Watch house on Monday Night last where
Mr. Dunch a Watchman brought in two
Children, a Male and Female in a piece
of an old Petticot, being Dead and Cold,
Says that she thought the Male Child had a
small Wound near hisEyeRight Ear, and that
the