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<p n="447"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo393">Westminster</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo394">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo395">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the Liberty of Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church<lb></lb>
of St. Peter at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo396">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65202_geo397">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65202_date85">fourteenth day of May </rs>
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in the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereigns<lb></lb>
Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the<lb></lb>
Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City<lb></lb>
and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Male Childthen and there lying Dead, upon the<lb></lb>
Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-2">Michael Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-3">William Curtis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-4">George Washington</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-5">Thomas Easton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-6">Giles White</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-7">James Cornwall</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-8">John<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-9">Edward Layton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-10">Thomas Bailey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-11">John Hunt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-12">George Ibbott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-56">Isaac Partridge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-13">Charles Powers</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-14">John Forster</rs>
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, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who being<lb></lb>
then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how and by<lb></lb>
what means the said Male Childcame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on<lb></lb>
the twelfth day of Mary in the Year aforesaid a certain Woman Unknown did being forth a Male Child<lb></lb>
alive, and that on the same day and Year a certain Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid.<lb></lb>
as yet unknown, with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in<lb></lb>
the County aforesaid in and upon the said Male Infant Child in the Peace of God and our said<lb></lb>
Lord the King, then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice<lb></lb>
fore thought did make an assault, And that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid<lb></lb>
unknow,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
then and there feloniously wilfully and of his her<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
their Malice fore though<obscured></obscured>
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the said Male Child did Choak and Strangle, of which said Choaking and Strangling the said Male<lb></lb>
Child then and there instantly Died. And that the said Person of Persons unknown<lb></lb>
of his her or their Malice forethought the Male Child aforesaid in manner and form<lb></lb>
aforesaid did then and there Kill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n447-15">Michael Hawkins</rs>
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Foreman, on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their<lb></lb>
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
first abovementioned.</p>
<p n="448"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n448-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65202_occ138">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="449"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65202_n449-1">Michale Hawkins</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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