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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1108">London</rs>
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(that<lb></lb>
is to say) at the precinct of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1109">Bridewell Hospital</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1110">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1111">London</rs>
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aforesaid on the twenty third day of July in the thirty ninth year of the<lb></lb>
reign of our <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-3">Sovereign Lord</rs>
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George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-4">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ317">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1112">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1113">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of a new born male infant Child now<lb></lb>
here lying dead by the oath of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-5">Thomas William</rs>
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Smart, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-6">Thomas Reynolds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-7">Roger Owen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-8">Thomas Couling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-9">John Saunders</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-10">John Harris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-11">Henry Woodroffe</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-12">Robert Hatton</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-14">Samuel Churchill</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-15">Youngs, Littlewood</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
John Jevry, good and lawful men of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1114">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid who being<lb></lb>
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King when how and in what manner the said male infant came to<lb></lb>
his death say upon their oath that a certain person or persons whose name<lb></lb>
or names to the Jurors aforesaid is or are unknown on the sixteenth day<lb></lb>
of July in the thirty ninth year aforesaid with fore and arms at the Precinct aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1115">London</rs>
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aforesaid in and upon the said the said new born<lb></lb>
male infant in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of his horn or their malice aforethought did make an assault<lb></lb>
and that the said person or persons with his her or their hands did then and there<lb></lb>
feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought strike and beat<lb></lb>
the said new born male infant in and upon the back part of its head giving<lb></lb>
to the said new born male infant then and there by such striking and beating<lb></lb>
on the back part of its head as aforesaid one mortal bruise in and upon the<lb></lb>
said back part of the head of the said new born male infant of which said<lb></lb>
mortal bruise the said new born male infant did then and there die And so the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons<lb></lb>
whose name or names to the Jurors aforesaid are unknown the said new born<lb></lb>
male infant in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of<lb></lb>
his her or their malice aforethought did kill and murder against the pear of our<lb></lb>
said Lord the King his Crown and dignityAnd that the said person or persons whose<lb></lb>
name or names to the Jurors aforesaid are unknown at the twice of committing<lb></lb>
the felony and murder aforesaid in form aforesaid had no goods or Chattels<lb></lb>
Lands or Tenements within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1116">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid or elsewhere to the knowledge<lb></lb>
of the said JurorsAnd that after he she or they had done and committed<lb></lb>
the felony and murder aforesaid in form aforesaid with drew himself herself or<lb></lb>
themselves and fled for the Same. In Witness whereof as well the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ318">Coroner</rs>
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as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1081-16">Thomas William</rs>
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Smart the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf<lb></lb>
of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition<lb></lb>
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.</p>
<p n="1082">J. <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1082-1">Wm. Smart</rs>
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