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<p n="1049"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">T. Shelton<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ325">Coroner</rs>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1040">parish of Allhallows Barking</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1041">Tower in London</rs>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65007_date244">twenty sixth day of July</rs>
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in the thirty fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of<lb></lb>
God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-3">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65007_occ327">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1042">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1043">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the Body of a female infant Child now here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-4">John Gray</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-6">Joseph Scarlett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-7">James Blanch</rs>
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George Harpley <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-8">John Ross</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-9">George White</rs>
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James Hasted <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-10">Charles Burnett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-11">John Drake</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-12">Samuel Adderly</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1049-13">John Crane</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
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good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1044">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King when how and in what manner the said female Child came to her death say upon their oath that a certain person whose name to the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown then lately before being big with a certain female Child the said female Childalone and secretly<lb></lb>
from her body by the providence of God did bring forth alive and that certain person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown not having the fear of<lb></lb>
God before his her or their eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil on the twenty fourth day of July in the year aforesaid with<lb></lb>
force and arms at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1045">London</rs>
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(that is to say) at the parish and Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1046">London</rs>
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aforesaid in and upon the said female Child unknown in<lb></lb>
the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought did make an Assault<lb></lb>
and that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown to tie the navel string of the said female Child unknown so then<lb></lb>
lately before born of the Body of her the said person (whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown as aforesaid) then and there<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought did neglect refuse and omit by reason whereof divers large quantities<lb></lb>
of blood did then and there omit and issue forth out of the body of the said female Child unknown And the said female Child unknown<lb></lb>
by reason of the omitting forth and issuing forth of the blood from her body as aforesaid and from the loss thereof then and there bear me and<lb></lb>
was mortally sick and weak in her body of which said mortal sickness and weakness in the body of the said female Child and by the<lb></lb>
omitting and issuing forth of the blood from the body of the said female Child unknown and by the loss thereof as aforesaid by reason of<lb></lb>
the neglecting refusing and omitting to tie the navel string of the said female Child unknown as aforesaid the said female Child<lb></lb>
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons to the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid as yet unknown the said female Child in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their<lb></lb>
malice aforethought did kill and murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and dignity And that the said<lb></lb>
person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown at the time of committing the felony and murder aforesaid or at anytime<lb></lb>
since had no goods or Chattels lands or tenements within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65007_geo1047">City of London</rs>
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or elsewere to the knowledge of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do further say that after the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown<lb></lb>
had done and committed the felony and murder aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid he she or they withdrew and fled for the<lb></lb>
same In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals<lb></lb>
the day year and place first abovewritten<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1050-4">James Blanche</rs>
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<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1050-5">George Harpley</rs>
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<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1050-7">George White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1051-2">Charles Barnett</rs>
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<del>John<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65007_n1051-5">Joseph Fennell</rs>
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