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<p n="571"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City & Libety<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo586">Middsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this twenty third<lb></lb>
day of March 1784 at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo587">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo588">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n571-1">James<lb></lb>
Cheeseman</rs>
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an Infant lying dead in the<lb></lb>
Said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="572"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n572-1">Elizabeth Shield</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ396">Fruiterer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo589">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ397">Widow</rs>
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on her Oath saith, That on Saturday <lb></lb>
the Twentieth<del>Thirtieth</del>
Instant about Twelve o'Clock<lb></lb>
at Noon Dept. was in Kinghtsbridge and saw<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n572-2">James Cheeseman</rs>
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the Infant lying down in<lb></lb>
the Road there upon his face Says that a<lb></lb>
Waggon was just passed along towards<lb></lb>
Hyde Park Corner, that the Waggon was<lb></lb>
Stopped at the Wheel within a few Inches of the Child<lb></lb>
But Dept.did not see the Wheel pass over<lb></lb>
the Deced, Says that the Deced was taken<lb></lb>
up and Dept. was desired to carry it to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo590">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Hyde Park <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ398">Corner</rs>
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, Says that she carried<lb></lb>
the Child there, that it was alive there be<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
could not speak and died immediately,<lb></lb>
Says that the Child was Bruised and a<lb></lb>
piece of the flesh tore on the left side but<lb></lb>
Dept. cannot say how it happened</p>
<p n="573"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n573-1">Elizabeth Shield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<lb></lb>
her Mark</p>
<p n="574"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n574-1">William Gee</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo591">Knightsbridge</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65224_occ399">Butcher</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath Saith That on Saturday last the Twentieth<lb></lb>
Instant,<del>that</del>
he saw the<obscured></obscured>
off wheel<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<obscured></obscured>
wheel waggon drawn<lb></lb>
by Eight Horses, pass over the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65224_n574-3">James<lb></lb>
Cheeseman</rs>
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an Infant in the Road at Kinghtsbridge<lb></lb>
says that the Child's Body was bruised, and that<lb></lb>
he was immediately carried to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo592">St. George's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65224_geo593">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
he died immediately as Dept. informed Says<lb></lb>
that</p>
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