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<p n="1209"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1029">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1030">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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<p n="1210">An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1031">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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, within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the<lb></lb>
Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1032">Westminster</rs>
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, in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo1033">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date230">Twentieth day of December</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great<lb></lb>
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ379">Gentleman</rs>
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, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of<lb></lb>
a New born Male Childthen and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-2">Daniel Hancock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-3">John<lb></lb>
Newman</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-4">Richard Wallis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-48">Henry Twentiman</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-38">Charles Thierchen</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-5">Michael Collins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-54">Christopher Spike</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-6">John<lb></lb>
Hainslow</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-7">John Jay</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-75">Robert Shallard</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-58">Edward Plastid </rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-8">George Nelson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-9">Robert Minnett</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-47">John Joison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-10">William<lb></lb>
Mumford Dowle</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-11">Charles Perkins</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-12">Thomas Sanderson</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said<lb></lb>
Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our<lb></lb>
said lord the King, when, how, and by what means the said Male Childcame to his<lb></lb>
Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Eighteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did bear and bring <lb></lb>
forth the said Male Child alive, And that the said Woman unknown not having the Fear of God before her Eyes, but being<lb></lb>
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, and wickedly intending and devising to Kill and Murder the said Male<lb></lb>
Child, on the Day and in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in<lb></lb>
the County aforesaid, in and upon the said Male Child then and there being alive and in the Peace of God and our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King then and there being feloniously<obscured></obscured>
and of her Malice forethought did make an Assault And that<lb></lb>
the said Woman unknown then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore brought, (with Intent and Design that<lb></lb>
the said Male Child might bleed to Death) did refuse neglect and omit to tye and cause to be tyed the Navel String of<lb></lb>
the said Male Child, By means whereof the said Male Child did then and there violently bleed through the said Navel<lb></lb>
String of the said Male Child, and the said Male Child of the great Effusion and Loss of Blood through his said Navel<lb></lb>
String did then and there languish and languishing did live, On which same Day and Year last mentioned the<lb></lb>
said Male Child at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, by reason of the great<lb></lb>
Effusion and Loss of Blood aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that<lb></lb>
the said Woman unknown him the said Male Child in Manner and form aforesaid feloniously wilfully<lb></lb>
and of her Malice fore thought did Kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his<lb></lb>
Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1210-13">Daniel Hancock</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first<lb></lb>
above mentioned.</p>
<p n="1211"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n1211-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ380">Coroner</rs>
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Danl. Hancock<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Foreman</p>
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