<div1 type="CW_ICpage" id="WACWIC65216IC652160351"> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="WACWIC652160351"></xptr>
<p n="1086"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1168">City & Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1168" type="placeName" value="City & Libertyof Westmr"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1168" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
. in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1169">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1169" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1169" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
</note>
}<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Twenty first<lb></lb>
day of August 1776 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1170">St.<lb></lb>
Paul Covent Garden</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1170" type="placeName" value="St.Paul Covent Garden"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1170" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon <lb></lb>
an Inquisition touching the death of<lb></lb>
a new born Male Child lying dead in the said<lb></lb>
Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1087"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65216_n1087-1">Hannah Goodbrand</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_n1087-1" type="given" value="Hannah"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_n1087-1" type="surname" value="Goodbrand"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_n1087-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ334">Widow</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_occ334" type="occupation" value="Widow"></interp>
a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65216_occ335">Lodger</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_occ335" type="occupation" value="Lodger"></interp>
at <lb></lb>
Mrs. Dawes in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1171">Russel Street</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1171" type="placeName" value="Russel Street"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1171" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1172">St. Paul Covent Garden</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1172" type="placeName" value="St. Paul Covent Garden"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1172" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
on her Oath saith<lb></lb>
That last Night about Ten o'Clock this Dept.<lb></lb>
had occasion to go to the Necessary House in<lb></lb>
the Cellar of Mrs. Dawes's House, and was<lb></lb>
immediately followed by a Girl who is<lb></lb>
Apprentice to Mrs. Dawes, Says that the Girl<lb></lb>
had a lighted Candle which she put upon<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1173">little Seat</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1173" type="placeName" value="little Seat"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1173" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the Necessary, and on Dept.<lb></lb>
asking her why she did so, the Girl Answered<lb></lb>
that she had been lately bit by a Cat in the<lb></lb>
Vault, and on the Girl looking down the<lb></lb>
Vault she said that she saw a Child there,<lb></lb>
and Dept, there upon saw the Male Child now<lb></lb>
produced, upon the Soil in the Vault, there<lb></lb>
being a great Quantity of Soil in the Vault,<lb></lb>
Says that she immediately called three of<lb></lb>
the Neighbours down Stairs, who likewise<lb></lb>
saw the Deced in the Soil, Says that a <lb></lb>
young Woman in the Presence of Dept.<lb></lb>
and Several Others took the Deced out of<lb></lb>
the Soil, that the Child was dead, and was<lb></lb>
afterwards Washed Says that the Door of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65216_geo1174">the Passage</rs>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1174" type="placeName" value="the Passage"></interp>
<interp inst="WACWIC65216_geo1174" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<lb></lb>
of the House is open all day and any Person who<lb></lb>
knows the way may go to the Necessary without<lb></lb>
being interrupted.</p>
<p n="1088">Hannah Good brand <lb></lb>
her<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Mark</p>
</div1>

View as Text