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<p n="1806"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2251">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
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. in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2252">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65226_date257">fifteenth<lb></lb>
day of August 1786</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2253">Parish of<lb></lb>
St. John the Evangelist</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2255">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Inquisition<lb></lb>
touching the death of a new born<lb></lb>
Female Child lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish LIberty and County</p>
<p n="1807"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1807-1">Luke Ballard</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65226_occ1521">Laborer</rs>
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, Working for<lb></lb>
Mr. Williams a Coal Marchant in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2256">Mill<lb></lb>
Bank Street</rs>
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Evangelist</rs>
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Westmr. Says that being Yesterday<lb></lb>
in a Barge at Mr. William's Wharf when<lb></lb>
he saw something in a Paper floating<lb></lb>
between two Barges Says that with<lb></lb>
a stick he took up the Bundle, into<lb></lb>
the Barge Says that <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2258">on</rs>
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untying the<lb></lb>
String and opening the Brown Paper<lb></lb>
he found it contained the New born<lb></lb>
Female Child which appeared to have<lb></lb>
been long in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65226_geo2259">River Thames</rs>
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, the<lb></lb>
Arms<obscured></obscured>
ing upon the Breast and the Feet<lb></lb>
turned upwards on the Legs, Says that<lb></lb>
he observed no Marks of violence upon<lb></lb>
the Deced, but Dept. cannot say whether<lb></lb>
it was born alive, or not</p>
<p n="1808">Sworn the Day Year<lb></lb>
& Place above mentioned<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1808-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="1809"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65226_n1809-1">Luke Ballard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
his Mark.</p>
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