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<p n="304"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo319">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the Country of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo320">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.}</note>
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<p n="305">An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo321">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo322">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the Country of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65230_geo323">Middlesex</rs>
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, the Twenty fifth day of February in the Thirtieth<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="WACWIC65230_n305-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of Robert an Infant then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-2">Nathaniel Cotes</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-3">Charles Flemming</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-4">Thomas Brown</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-5">James Conoly</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-6">James Newby</rs>
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,<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-7">Samuel Brooks</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-8">Alexander Martin</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-16">James Rayar</rs>
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, John Kelvington, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-9">Robert Stone</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-10">John Nichols</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-11">George Bourne</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-12">Alexander Machinzie</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-13">Thomas Manning</rs>
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, John Jefts<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-14">James Edwards</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 Infant Child came to<lb></lb>
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty fourth day of February<lb></lb>
in the Year aforesaid the said Female Infant Child, was in Bed with Hannah Cumming in the dwelling<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n305-15">William Roberts</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ112">Victualler</rs>
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situate in Oxedan Street in the<lb></lb>
said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and<lb></lb>
Country aforesaid, and that the said Female Child Accidentally Casually<lb></lb>
and by Misfortune was then and there suffocated and smothered of<lb></lb>
which said Suffocation and smothering she the said Female Child<lb></lb>
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath<lb></lb>
aforesaid do say that the said Female Child in manner and by the<lb></lb>
means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her<lb></lb>
Death and not otherwise.</p>
<p n="306">In Witness whereof as well the<lb></lb>
said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n306-1">Nathaniel Cotes</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors<lb></lb>
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year<lb></lb>
and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="307"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n307-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65230_occ113">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="308"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65230_n308-1">Nathl. Colts</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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