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<p n="1785"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2236">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2237">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit</note>
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<p n="1786">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at The <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2238">Parish of Saint John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2239">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2240">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the fifteenth day of August in the twenty sixth <lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of <lb></lb>
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-1">Thomas <lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1514">Gentleman, Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on <lb></lb>
View of the Body of a new born Female Child then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of Peter Pirvean, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-2">Thomas Ride</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-892">Edward Ager</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-3">Henry Webb</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-882">William Proby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-4">Thomas Simking</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-5">George Winch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-6">John Arrow</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-7">Richard Harding</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-8">Thomas Green</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-772">Henry Distrain</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-9">Frederick<lb></lb>
Wandermude</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1786-10">John Norman</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Female Child came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That on the Fourteenth day of August, in the<lb></lb>
year aforesaid, a certain Woman unknown did bring forth the said Female<lb></lb>
Child alive, and that on the same Day and Year a certain Person or Persons to the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid unknown, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid, within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said Female Child in the Peace of<lb></lb>
God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his<lb></lb>
her or their Malice of Thought did make an<obscured></obscured>
And that the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown the said Female Child then and<lb></lb>
there feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought unto the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2241">River<lb></lb>
Thames</rs>
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did Cast and throw by Means of which said Casting and Throwing, She<lb></lb>
the said Female Child in the Water of the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2242">River Thames</rs>
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was then and<lb></lb>
there Suffocated and Drowned, And that the said Person or Persons unknown<lb></lb>
of his her or their Malice aforethought, the said Female Child in Manner and<lb></lb>
Form aforesaid, did then and there kill and Murder, against the peace of our<lb></lb>
said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity</p>
<p n="1787">In Witness whereof, as well<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1515">Coroner</rs>
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, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1787-1">Peter Pirveau</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1516">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their Presence have to<lb></lb>
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year, and<lb></lb>
Place above written</p>
<p n="1788"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1788-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1517">Coroner</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
Peter Pirveau<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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