Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses Taken and Acknowledged on
the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King the Twentieth day of
March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty five At the
House of Joseph May< no role > known by the Sign of the Crown in Narrow
Street in the Parish of Saint Ann in the County of Middlesex
before Thomas Phillips< no role > One of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the King for the said County touching the Death of a new born
Male Child then and there lying Dead as follow (to wit)

Richard Cannon< no role > Apprentice to Thomas Robins< no role > of Line house fisherman
Saith That Monday Might last the wth. March about five o Clock as
he was taking in as Duts in the Gallery at Mr. Matys House in
Order to go on bord he saw One Joseph Virtue< no role > who was in a
Boat then lying near the Ferry take up the said Child with
Boat hook That the Child was in A Luinmen Handkershief
Prined with Two pins and fastned to a Hoop with several
Nails in it But he Believes One of the Nails had only
Calld hold of the Handkerchief after the Child was put in the
Water for it dropped off as soon as taken up

That there was nothing Tied round the ChildThat the Sking
was [..] bd off the back part of the head and its Thighs which he
Believes was done by its being beat about in the Water
and it had no Marks of Violence about it

Taken and Acknowledged the Day
and Year and at the Place
first above written before me}
Tho Phillips< no role > Coroner

The Mark of the said
Richard [mark] Cannon< no role >