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<p n="1371"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1454">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1455">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Fourth day<lb></lb>
of October 1776 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1456">Parish of St James</rs>
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<lb></lb>
william the Liberty of Westmr in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1457">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition touching<lb></lb>
the death of a new born Female Child lying<lb></lb>
dead in the said Parish Liberty & County</p>
<p n="1372"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1372-1">Thomas Miller</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ439">Plairterer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1458">Whites alley<lb></lb>
Chancery Lane</rs>
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on his Oath saiths That he was<lb></lb>
employed with a Laborer this Morning to open a Drain that was Stopped<lb></lb>
to let the Sail orit of a necessary belonging<lb></lb>
to two House in Edward Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1459">Parish of<lb></lb>
St James</rs>
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Westmr in the occupation of Mr<lb></lb>
Fair brother & Mr Brown as Dept was informed<lb></lb>
Says that the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ440">Laborer</rs>
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(whose name is <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1372-2">James<lb></lb>
Hodgkis</rs>
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was below in the Necessary filling a<lb></lb>
pail with the soil and Dept drew up the Pail<lb></lb>
Says that about Eleven o'Clock Hodgers said Miller take care of at<lb></lb>
there is a silver Tankard, upon which Dept looked<lb></lb>
and saw a White Earthen Quort Mue and<lb></lb>
in it a Female Child with some<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
about her Neck, and fasten'd to the handle of the<lb></lb>
Mug, Says that the Child was dead, and appeared <lb></lb>
to have been some days in the Soil, Says that<lb></lb>
he washed the Deced and observed no marks<lb></lb>
of violence upon her</p>
<p n="1373"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1373-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Miller</rs>
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<lb></lb>
his Mark</p>
<p n="1374"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1374-1">Edward Fair brother</rs>
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of Edward Street in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1460">Parish of St James</rs>
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Westmr Green <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ441">Grocer</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath saith That the Drain out of his Necessary<lb></lb>
and Mr. Browns the adjoining Neighbour was stopped Says<lb></lb>
that Mr Miller and a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ442">Laborer</rs>
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were there<lb></lb>
this Morning Emptying the Necessary, and<lb></lb>
about Eleven O'Clock Miller said here is a Child<lb></lb>
by</p>
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