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<p n="961"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo874">City and</rs>
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Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo875">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Eighth day of May 1766<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo876">St. Anne within</rs>
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the Liberty of Westmr. in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo877">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an Inquisition touching the<lb></lb>
Death of a New born Female Child lying Dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="962"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n962-1">Francis Ward</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo878">Milk Alloy</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo879">St. Anne</rs>
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Westmr.<lb></lb>
Grave digger to said Parish on his Oath saith, That yesterday<lb></lb>
Morning about half on hour after six o'Clock He this Deponent<lb></lb>
was in the Burying Ground adjoyning to the Parish Church of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo880">St. Ann</rs>
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, and about six Yards from the Wall adjoining to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo881">Princes Street</rs>
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, Deponent saw a Bundle lying in the said<lb></lb>
Burying Ground, Says that he went it to be a Red Barse<lb></lb>
Bag, and therein a Child wrapped in a piece of Linnen<lb></lb>
Cloth, Says that the Child was then Dead but Dept did not<lb></lb>
Examine the Child at the time, but carried it to the Vestry<lb></lb>
Says that about a Quarter after Seven o'Clock the same<lb></lb>
Morning Mr. Elcock the Sexton came there, when they<lb></lb>
Examined the Child together and found it to be a Female<lb></lb>
Child, and quite Cold, but Dept. observed no Marks of<lb></lb>
violence upon the said Female Child, Says that he<del>lock<obscured></obscured>
est</del>
<lb></lb>
the said Child into the Watch box in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo882">Burying Ground</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and locked the Door.</p>
<p n="963"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n963-1">Francis Ward</rs>
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</p>
<p n="964"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n964-1">John Obadiah Instamond</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo883">Frith Street</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65206_n964-3">William Groote</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65206_geo884">Nassau Street</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65206_occ299">Surgeons</rs>
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, on their Oath saverally say,<lb></lb>
that they this day Examined the Female Child and f<obscured></obscured>
d no<lb></lb>
Marks of Violence thereon, That they tried the Experiment of<lb></lb>
putting the Lungs into Water, and that they did not Sink therein,<lb></lb>
but that they cannot say that the said Child was born alive,<lb></lb>
the Child having been Dead about eight days, as there<lb></lb>
Depts. believe, and in a State of Putrefaction.</p>
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Instamond<lb></lb>
W. Groote.</p>
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