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Informations of Witnesses Severally taken and
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acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
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the Death of a Female Child Unknown at the Dwelling House of
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in the twenty sixth Year of the
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third before me
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one of his Majesty's
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Coroners
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for the
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said County on an Inquisition then and there taken on View of
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dead as follow to wit.
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upon his Oath Saith That on Thursday last in the Evening
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he was sent for by a Mr. Mason of
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to look at the deceased
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who was found in a Box in a Ditch in a field between
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on examination of
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the Body found it a female Child to all Appearance
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born alive, being full grown and
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from that circumstance, concluded it was born alive
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being in too putrid a State to make any other Examinations
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as Deponent apprehends it had lain in the Box three
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Months.Saith there was in the Box some Oath leans
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and Wheat brand.And is of opinion that the deceased
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had been murdered and from what was in the Box is
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further of opinion it had been put where found for the
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