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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo593">westminster</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo594">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the house of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n846-1">Peter Boyd</rs>
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the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo595">Coach and Horses</rs>
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in Marlborough Street in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo596">Saint James</rs>
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within the Liberty of<lb></lb>
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo597">Saint Peter, westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65236_geo598">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="WACWIC65236_date30">twenty third day of May 1796</rs>
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in the thirty sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third<lb></lb>
by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65236_n846-2">Anthony Gell</rs>
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Esqr. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on view of the Body of<lb></lb>
an Infant Female Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names<lb></lb>
are hereunder written and seals affixed good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being<lb></lb>
then and there duly sworn and charged. to enquire for our said Lord the King when, how, and by what<lb></lb>
Means the said female child came to her death, do, upon their oath say, that some person (to these Jurors<lb></lb>
unknown) not having the Fear of God before his or her Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil<lb></lb>
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some time previous to the said twenty third day of May, but, at what time to these Jurors unknown, withforce<lb></lb>
and arms, at the parish aforesaid, within the Liberty aforesaid in and upon the said female child in the peace<lb></lb>
of God and of our said Lord the King, then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his or her Malice<lb></lb>
aforethought, did make an assault, And that the said person her the said female Child did then<lb></lb>
and there into a certain Privy or Necessary House belonging to two Houses No. 26 & 27 in Tickbourne Street<lb></lb>
(one of which said two Houses now being uninhabited) within the Liberty aforesaid then and there<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully & of his or her Malice aforethought did violently cast and throw down (having<lb></lb>
first cut the throat of the said female Infant Child) by means whereof she the said female Infant<lb></lb>
Child in the Soil or Filth then and there contained in the said Privy or necessary House was then<lb></lb>
and there suffocated and Smothered: Of which said Suffocation and Smothering she the said female<lb></lb>
Infant Child then and there instantly died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid, do say, that the said person unknown, her, the said female Infant<lb></lb>
Child in manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his or<lb></lb>
her Malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord<lb></lb>
The King his Crown and Dignity: And that after the said Person (to these Jurors<lb></lb>
unknown) had done and committed the Felony and Murder aforesaid, in manner and by the<lb></lb>
Means aforesaid, he or her withdrew and fled for the same. In Witness whereof<lb></lb>
as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
hands and Seals the day year and place first above-written</p>
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