City & Liberty
of
Westminster
in the County
of Middlesex
}
Informations of Witnesses
severally taken and acknowledged
on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord
the King touching the Death of an
Infant Female Child at the Dwelling
house of
Richard Kerry< no role >
the Sign
of the Heath Cock
in the Strand
in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields
in the
CitLiberty aforesaid
on the first day of March in the
thirty Seventh Year of the Reign of
of our Sovereign Lord King George
the Third before me
Anthony Gell< no role >
his Majesty's Coroner
for the said
City and Liberty on an Inquisition
then and there taken on View of the
Body of the said Infant Female
Child then and there lying dead,
as follow, to Wit
Richard Simmons< no role >
Surgeon
to the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields
being sworn deposeth
that he with this day [..] examined the
body of the said Female Infant Child and of
opinion that it was about eight months old
that upon opening the body and trying the
usual Experiment of putting the Lungs
into