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<p n="258"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo238">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date53">12th April<lb></lb>
1762</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo239">Parish of St. James within the<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. on<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
an I quisition taken on<lb></lb>
the Body of a New born Male Infant born of<lb></lb>
the Body of a Woman unknown.</p>
<p n="259"> <del>William</del>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n259-1">Henry Foster</rs>
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af Shag Lane Bookseller<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ68">Beadle</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo240">Saint James within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr</rs>
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. on his Oath saith that<lb></lb>
lost Saturday night about nine be was sent<lb></lb>
for to come to Mr. Pikes a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ69">Distiller</rs>
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, and when<lb></lb>
Dept. came there he informed Dept. that a Child<lb></lb>
was lying in the Street, in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo241">the Haymarket</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
that he with Mr <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n259-2">Robert Goodman</rs>
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Went to<lb></lb>
the Place where the child lay, and found a great<lb></lb>
mob about the Infant, says some body among<lb></lb>
the Mob<del>lifting</del>
lifted the corner of is coarse<lb></lb>
Cloth and of an<obscured></obscured>
aer finer Cloth which were<lb></lb>
about the child, and dept. then saw that there<lb></lb>
was a child therein, and dirt upon one of its Arms<lb></lb>
says that finding the Child to lay in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo242">St. James's<lb></lb>
Parish</rs>
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Dept. & Mr Goodman, attended a Woman<lb></lb>
unknown, to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo243">St. James's work House</rs>
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whom they<lb></lb>
employed to carry the child thither, says he<lb></lb>
did not examine the Child, but the Woman who<lb></lb>
brough the child to the Work house opened it<lb></lb>
to the Matron.</p>
<p n="260"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n260-1">Henry Foster</rs>
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F</p>
<p n="261"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n261-1">William Lewis</rs>
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of Shug Lane Pork Butcher<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ70">Constable</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo244">Saint James Westmr</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
on his Oath Saith that one Mr. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n261-2">Ann Dixon</rs>
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, last<lb></lb>
Saturday night betwixt nine and ten informed<lb></lb>
Deponent that a Child lay in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo245">the Haymarket</rs>
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<lb></lb>
about the Middle, Whereupon Dept. went there,<lb></lb>
and found a great broad of people, and Mr. Goodman<lb></lb>
and Mr. Foster in the Nudot, says somebody, he<lb></lb>
believes Mr. Goodman unfolded the cloths in which<lb></lb>
the Child was wraps up, and Dept. then discovered a<lb></lb>
New born child in it, says he believes it was dead, but<lb></lb>
made no strict Examination of the Child</p>
<p n="262"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n262-1">Wm Lewis</rs>
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