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<p n="1348"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1498">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1499">Midsex</rs>
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<p n="1349">Informations taken this<lb></lb>
Twenty third day of November 1778<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1500">St. Margaret within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. on the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1501">County <lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of a Few born<lb></lb>
Female Child lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County</p>
<p n="1350"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1350-1">Samuel Slade</rs>
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of Pratt Street Lambeth <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ427">Gentleman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That on Saturday last<lb></lb>
(Novr. 21st.) about Eleven o Clock in the Foreman<lb></lb>
Dept. was walking in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1502">Hyde Park</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1503">parish<lb></lb>
of St. George</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1504">Hanover Square</rs>
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, and saw two<lb></lb>
Men standing near the Head of the Serpentine<lb></lb>
River there, who told Dept. that the had found<lb></lb>
a Child that was Drowned in the<obscured></obscured>
there<lb></lb>
upon a Sat off which prevented it going<lb></lb>
into the Holey & that the Child was found served<lb></lb>
up in the Jack, Says that he saw a Female<lb></lb>
Child lying on the Ground upon a piece<lb></lb>
of Sack, Says that the Deced was dead but<lb></lb>
that he observed no Marks of violence<lb></lb>
upon the Child. Says that they called to<lb></lb>
the Keeper and some Man soon came<lb></lb>
towards the water side<del>Deced,</del>
Says that he went to<lb></lb>
Hammers with and on his Return in the<lb></lb>
afternoon called at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1505">Knights bridge</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
was there informed, that the Child<del>that</del>
was<lb></lb>
brought to the Watchhouse there by the Parish<lb></lb>
Officers.</p>
<p n="1351"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1351-1">Sam. Slade</rs>
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