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To Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint Luke Chelsea<lb></lb>
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, the <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65101_date64">Seventeenth Day of May in the 22nd. Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third</rs>
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, by the Grace, of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of<lb></lb>
the Faith, Etc. before <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n486-1">Edward Umfreville</rs>
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one of the Coroners of Our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King, for the said County, on view of the body of a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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then and there lying dead, upon the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n486-3">Christopher Kempster</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n486-19">Flown Chillips</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law, required, and who being then and there duly sworn<lb></lb>
and charged to enquire for our Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said new born female<lb></lb>
Child came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That some Person or Persons to the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the Trear of God before his, her or their Eyes but<lb></lb>
being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Thirteenth Day of<del>November</del>
May in<lb></lb>
the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
the said New born Female Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being<lb></lb>
feloniously Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did make an Assault and That<lb></lb>
the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown her the said New born Female Child feloniously<lb></lb>
Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought into his her or their Hands Did take and into the<lb></lb>
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Did then and there last and throw By Means whereof she the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo523">New born</rs>
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Female Child was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which<lb></lb>
said Suffocation and Drowning she the said New born Female child then and there died and so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Person or Persons so as<lb></lb>
aforesaid unknown her the said New born Female Child in Manner and by the Means<lb></lb>
aforesaid feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought Did kill and murder<lb></lb>
against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity<lb></lb>
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In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n486-20">Christopher Kempster</rs>
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the Foreman of<lb></lb>
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their<lb></lb>
Hands and Seals the Day and Yeat first abovementioned</p>
<p n="487">E. Umfreville<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Coronr.</p>
<p n="488">Chrisr. Kempster<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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