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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses Severally taken and<lb></lb>
acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching<lb></lb>
the Death of a Female Child Unknown at the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1033-1">Benjamin Turner</rs>
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known by <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1024">the Sign of the King and<lb></lb>
Queen</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1026">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on Saturday the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date174">fifth<lb></lb>
Day of August</rs>
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in the twenty sixth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1033-2">William Wilson</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ427">Coroners</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
said County on an Inquisition then and there taken on View of<lb></lb>
the Body of the said Female Child Unknown then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead as follow to wit.</p>
<p n="1034"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1034-1">William Druitt Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1027">Paddington</rs>
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<lb></lb>
upon his Oath Saith That on Thursday last in the Evening<lb></lb>
he was sent for by a Mr. Mason of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1028">Paddington</rs>
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to look at the deceased<lb></lb>
who was found in a Box in a Ditch in a field between<lb></lb>
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on examination of<lb></lb>
the Body found it a female Child to all Appearance<lb></lb>
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born alive, being full grown and<lb></lb>
from that circumstance, concluded it was born alive<lb></lb>
being in too putrid a State to make any other Examinations<lb></lb>
as Deponent apprehends it had lain in the Box three<lb></lb>
Months.Saith there was in the Box some Oath leans<lb></lb>
and Wheat brand.And is of opinion that the deceased<lb></lb>
had been murdered and from what was in the Box is<lb></lb>
further of opinion it had been put where found for the<lb></lb>
purpose of being destroyed by Cattle.</p>
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