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<p n="1945">Late Charts of westmr<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2182">County of Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Informations of Witness<lb></lb>
taken him 20 Septr.<lb></lb>
1797 at the House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1945-1">John Washbourne</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2183">Sign of the White hart</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2184">Hemmings<lb></lb>
Row</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2185">Parish of St. Martins</rs>
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recived of the Baly<lb></lb>
of a new born ferial Child<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1945-2">Richard Simons</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1050">Surgeon</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2186">St. Martins Parish</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
Sworn saith that he has examined the Body of<lb></lb>
the Deced & from General Appearance believes<lb></lb>
it to be in new born Child. the child is in<lb></lb>
so putrid a state he cannot positively<lb></lb>
undertake to say what was the Cause<lb></lb>
of the Death but if born alive (which<lb></lb>
is impossible for him to say) there can be<lb></lb>
no doubt but that it was drowned</p>
<p n="1946"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1946-1">Richd: Simmons</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1947"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1947-1">Joseph Allen</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1051">waterman</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2187">Hungerford<lb></lb>
stairs</rs>
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, lies in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2188">Charles Court</rs>
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he was<lb></lb>
coming from <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2189">Queenhithe</rs>
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Yesterday between<lb></lb>
1 & 2 o'Clock & nearly opposite <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2190">York<lb></lb>
House</rs>
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about 140 Yards from the Shore<lb></lb>
he saw the deced floating on the Surface<lb></lb>
of the Water it was then high water<lb></lb>
it was then quite<del>dead</del>
putrid -further he knows<lb></lb>
that the sd. female child was found drowned in the River<lb></lb>
Thames on the 19 sept. 1797 in a Putrid state but how &<lb></lb>
by what means the said child came there & to her death<lb></lb>
no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.</p>
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