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AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
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a New born Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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good and Lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said New Born Child came to its
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That Some person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet
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unknown not having the fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being moved and reduced by
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the Instigation of the Devil on the twenty fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid with force and
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Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the said new born Child
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in the peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully
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and of his her or their malice aforethought did make an Assault And that the said person or
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Persons so as aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown the said new born Child did then and there
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take into Oath his her or their hands and in a certain Linnen Cloth of no value then and there
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feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought did wrap up and Tye and
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the said new born Child into a certain Privy or Necessary House there situate then and there
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feloniusly wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did violently Cast and throw down
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by means whereof the said new born Child in the Soil and Filth then and there contained in the said Privy
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or Necessary House was then and there suffocated and smothered of which said Suffocation and Smothering
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the said new born Child then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
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say that the said person or persons so as aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown the said new born
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Child in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and and of his her or their Malice
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aforethought did Hill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown
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and Dignity
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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