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<p n="556"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo566">City & Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo567">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65239_date115">15th. of March 1799</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n556-1">John Steel</rs>
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the Sign of the<lb></lb>
Green Coat Boy in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo568">Tothill Fields</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
St. Margaret on view of the Body <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n556-2">James Ellis</rs>
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aged 18 month an<lb></lb>
Infant then & there lying dead</p>
<p n="557"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n557-1">Mary Cockerill</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo569">Broadway Way</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo570">Westmr</rs>
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a lodger<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65239_geo571">St Smith</rs>
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being sworn saith that on Saturday last the 9<lb></lb>
Inst. then Dept. was Mending the Mother<lb></lb>
of the Deced who was lying in the deced<lb></lb>
& 2 other Children the eldest about 8<lb></lb>
were sitting by the fire the deced fell<lb></lb>
against the fire & at that Instant<lb></lb>
the Coffee Pot with Coffee therein much<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
nearly<obscured></obscured>
tell<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
over the Deced & scalded the left<lb></lb>
Arm &<del>the</del>
under the left Ear. This<lb></lb>
Dept sent immediately for Doctor<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
who came & applied what he judged<lb></lb>
necessary notwithstanding wch. he<lb></lb>
died on Monday Evening. The Child<lb></lb>
has been much converted since the<lb></lb>
Accident happened. The Child has been<lb></lb>
properly attended &<obscured></obscured>
had Fits<lb></lb>
before the Accident</p>
<p n="558"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65239_n558-1">Mary Cockrell</rs>
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<p n="559">Verdict<lb></lb>
Accidentally scalded to Death</p>
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