March 7. 1771 .

Frances Cockran< no role > of Blue Anchor Yard Westmr. Midwife
on her Oath saith that on Saturday Night last Dept.
stood at the End of Blue Anchor Yard in Petty France , and
seeing a great Crowd of People before Mr. Timbury the Perwke
makers door, and hearing that a Child was last there, she
went there and saw a Child lying upon the Step before
Mr. Timbury's Door, in a piece of Linnen, but Dept.
did not touch the Chid, who appeared to be dead.

Frances Cockren< no role >

Elizabeth Richards< no role > Midwife (Wife of Benjamin Richards< no role >
of Mill Bank Street Westmr.) on her Oath saith, That she
has Examined the New born Male Child lying in the
Work house of the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr . and found
no marks of Violence thereupon, That the Child appears
to be about Eighth Months Child, That she thinks it was
a sudden Birth and believes that the Child was Strangled
in the Birth, and that it was not born alive, And
this Dept. says that she went With Mr. Drake the
Vestry Clerk of this Parish on Tuesday last to Blue
Anchor Yard Petty France Westmr. and there heard a
Girl who she was informed had been Examined upon the Coroner's Inquest) charge a Woman who lodges in said Yard with giving
a Bundle on Saturday Night last to another Woman, who,
the sd: Girl said, she saw lay it down at Mr. Timbury's Door
says that both the Woman dimed the Charge, and that
she this Dept. has since Examined the Woman who
delivered the Bundle to the other and believes that she
cod. not be the mother of the Child.

Elizabeth Richard< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day & Year
abovementioned before me}

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner