City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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City and Liberty
of
Westminster in
the County
of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledged on the behalf
of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
the Death of an Infant Male Child at
the House ofHill the Sign of the
Barley Mow in Mount Street in the
Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square To Wit

Barnabas Bright< no role > a Coachman to Mr. Woodbridge
in Sloane Street being sworn deposeth that about
half an hour past six Yesterday morning the
twelfth Instant, as he and his Friend were going
from Grosvenor Gate towards Hyde Park Corner they
found a fully grown [..] Infant Male Child quite naked lying in the
Carriage Way not far from Stanhope Street Gate
and upon examining the said Child this Deponent
observed that he had received two [..] Wound under
his right Ear [..] and several Passangers
likewise stopped and saw the said Child and
this




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