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<p n="334"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo381">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo382">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date42">Sixth day<lb></lb>
of February 1786</rs>
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at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo383">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
in the County of Midsex upon an Inquisitn.<lb></lb>
touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n334-1">Richard Edwards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ259">Infant</rs>
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lying dead in the said Parish<lb></lb>
Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="335"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n335-1">Mary</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ260">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n335-2">Thomas Edwards</rs>
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a Lodger at<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n335-3">Henry Brain</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo384">Tothill Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo385">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. Margaret Westmr</rs>
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. on her Oath saith that<lb></lb>
on Thursday last the Second Instant Dept. left<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n335-4">Richard Edwards</rs>
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her Child (Aged about three<lb></lb>
Years.) in her Room which she went to<lb></lb>
the Butcher in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo386">Bridge Street</rs>
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, being about<lb></lb>
two o Clock in the Afternoon Says that she<lb></lb>
left the Room Door open and some Fire<lb></lb>
in the Grate, Says that she returned<lb></lb>
in a Quarter of an hour at farthest<lb></lb>
and when she was going up Stairs she<lb></lb>
heard the Child Cry out, saying have<lb></lb>
done, the Room being in a smother<lb></lb>
Says that the Child lay upon the Bed<lb></lb>
and his Cloaths on Fire, says that the<lb></lb>
Child was very much burnt upon the<lb></lb>
Right side and the right Arm, & St<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and that she carried him to the Westmr.<lb></lb>
Hospital where it was Dressed, and Dept<lb></lb>
took it home to her Room where it languished<lb></lb>
until Friday the Thirty and there died about<lb></lb>
two o'Clock in the Afternoon, in consequence<lb></lb>
of his being burnt.</p>
<p n="336"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n336-1">Mary Edwards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
her Mark</p>
<p n="337">Sworn the Day Year &<lb></lb>
Place abovementioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n337-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ261">Coroner</rs>
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