City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Middlesex

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Informations taken this Twenty first
day of August 1776 at the Parish of St.
Paul Covent Garden within the Liberty
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon
an Inquisition touching the death of
a new born Male Child lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Hannah Goodbrand< no role > Widow a Lodger at
Mrs. Dawes in Russel Street in the Parish
of St. Paul Covent Garden on her Oath saith
That last Night about Ten o'Clock this Dept.
had occasion to go to the Necessary House in
the Cellar of Mrs. Dawes's House, and was
immediately followed by a Girl who is
Apprentice to Mrs. Dawes, Says that the Girl
had a lighted Candle which she put upon
the little Seat in the Necessary, and on Dept.
asking her why she did so, the Girl Answered
that she had been lately bit by a Cat in the
Vault, and on the Girl looking down the
Vault she said that she saw a Child there,
and Dept, there upon saw the Male Child now
produced, upon the Soil in the Vault, there
being a great Quantity of Soil in the Vault,
Says that she immediately called three of
the Neighbours down Stairs, who likewise
saw the Deced in the Soil, Says that a
young Woman in the Presence of Dept.
and Several Others took the Deced out of
the Soil, that the Child was dead, and was
afterwards Washed Says that the Door of the Passage
of the House is open all day and any Person who
knows the way may go to the Necessary without
being interrupted.

Hannah Good brand
her [mark] Mark