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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
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a newborn Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said new born Male Child came to his
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Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That one
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on the twenty fifth day of December
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in the year aforesaid at the parish and in the County aforesaid being nurse to the said
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new born male Child did then and there by Mistake give to the said new born Male
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Child a certain Quantity (to wit) a Quarter of an Ounce of Spirit of Salts instead of
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a Quantity of Oil of Almond s which were intended for the said new born male Child
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And the said new born male Child having drank and swallowed down the said
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Spirit of Salts so given to him as aforesaid to the said new born male Child then and
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there became sick and distempered in his Body and of Sickness and Distemper
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aforesaid from the said twenty fifth day of December in the year aforesaid until the
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twenty sixth day of
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the same year at the parish aforesaid in the
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did live on which said twenty
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sixth day of December in the Year aforesaid he the said New born Male Child
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at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Sickness and Distemper aforesaid
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Did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said New
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born Male Child in Manner and by the means aforesaid came to his Death
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IN WITESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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Thos Walker
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