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Westmr</rs>
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. in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1979">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date225">First day of<lb></lb>
August 1786</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1980">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1981">Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the County of Midsex upon<lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1592-1">Elizabeth Potts</rs>
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an Infant lying dead<lb></lb>
in the said Parish Liberty & County</p>
<p n="1593"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1593-1">Jane Stephens</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1593-2">Edn Moore</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo1982">Oxford Buildings</rs>
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Hanover Square</rs>
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on her Oath saith That<lb></lb>
She usually slept with Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1593-3">Sarah Clements</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1318">Mother</rs>
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of the Deced an Infant about<lb></lb>
Eleven Weeks old, and Slept with her<lb></lb>
and the Child on Thursday Night last<lb></lb>
the Twenty seventh Instant Says that about<lb></lb>
<del>Two</del>
o' Clock on Friday Morning the Child<lb></lb>
cryed very much and Mrs. Moore came<lb></lb>
up Stairs, That the Child cryed again<lb></lb>
at three o' Clock and Dept.<obscured></obscured>
the Mother and the Mother gave the<lb></lb>
Child the Breast, who cryed very strong and<lb></lb>
appeared to be well, Says that She dropped<lb></lb>
asleep and was awaked by the Deced the Mother<lb></lb>
a little before five who said that her<lb></lb>
Child was dead, and alarmed the Lodgers<lb></lb>
Says that she saw the Child dead, but Dept.<lb></lb>
cannot say how it dead. Says that the<lb></lb>
Mother was very Deaf, and Addicted to<lb></lb>
Liquor, That she was fond of the Child<lb></lb>
and Dept. does not think that she intended doing<lb></lb>
the Child any Injury.</p>
<p n="1594"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1594-1">Jane<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Stephen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
her Mark</p>
<p n="1595">Sworn the Day Year & Place<lb></lb>
abovementioned before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1595-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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