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<p n="105"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo124">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo125">County of Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord the King at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo126">Saint Ann</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean<lb></lb>
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo127">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65204_geo128">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65204_date32">Sixth day of February in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the Third</rs>
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by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and<lb></lb>
Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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Gentleman<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty on View of the Body<lb></lb>
of New born Female Child then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-2">Peter<lb></lb>
Balchin</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-3">John Reed</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-4">Thomas Tovey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-5">John Sims</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-6">Benjamin Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-7">John Taylor</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-8">Thomas Dobson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-9">Edward Harrison</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-17">Thomas Stilling</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-10">Samuel Blanch</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-11">John Manytharp</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-12">Peter Mounier</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-13">John Henderson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-14">Joseph Crawford</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-15">Thomas Munden</rs>
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, good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly chosen<lb></lb>
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King<lb></lb>
when how and by what Means the said Female Childcame to her Death do upon<lb></lb>
their Oath say That on the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65204_date33">Fourth day of February in the Year aforesaid</rs>
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, a certain<lb></lb>
Woman Unknown did bring forth a Female Child alive, and that on the same Day and<lb></lb>
Year a certain Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, with Force and<lb></lb>
Arms at the said Female Infant Child in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and<lb></lb>
upon the said Female Infant Child in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and<lb></lb>
there being Feloniously, Wilfully and of his her or their Malice fore thought did make an Assault<lb></lb>
And that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown then and there<lb></lb>
Feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice fore thought the said Female Child<lb></lb>
did Choak and Strangle, of which said Choaking and Strangling the said Female Child then<lb></lb>
and there instantly Died: And that the said Person or Persons unknown of his her or their<lb></lb>
Malice fore thought the said Female Child in Manner and form aforesaid did then and<lb></lb>
there Hill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his brown and<lb></lb>
Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n105-16">Peter Balchin</rs>
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Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in<lb></lb>
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and<lb></lb>
Place first above written</p>
<p n="106"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n106-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<p n="107"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65204_n107-1">Peter Balchin</rs>
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