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<p n="624"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo760">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo761">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo762">Parish of Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo763">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo764">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the Eighteenth day of April in the twenty fifth<lb></lb>
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of<lb></lb>
Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas,<lb></lb>
Prickard, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on<lb></lb>
View of the Body of a new born Male Child then and there lying dead, upon<lb></lb>
the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-1">William Kerr</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-2">Nathaniel Plaine</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-3">Joseph Wyld</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-4">John Morland</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-5">John Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-6">Jefford Radford</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-7">Ralph<lb></lb>
Peacock</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-8">William Sibsey</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-9">Peter Clark</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-10">Thomas Hall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-11">Charles Lewis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-12">Christopher Couch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said new born Male Child came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the said Eighteenth day of<lb></lb>
April in the Year aforesaid a certain Woman did bring forth the<lb></lb>
said Male Child alive, And that on the same Day and Year the<lb></lb>
said Woman or some other Person or Persons to the Jurors,<lb></lb>
aforesaid as yet unknown with Force and Arms at the Parish<lb></lb>
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon<lb></lb>
the said Male Infant Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his<lb></lb>
her or their Malice fore thought did make an Assault, And that<lb></lb>
the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown the said<lb></lb>
Male Child into the River near <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65225_geo765">Chelsea Bridge</rs>
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in the Parish Liberty<lb></lb>
and County aforesaid did then and there feloniously wilfully and<lb></lb>
of his her or their Malice fore thought cast and throw, by Means<lb></lb>
of which said casting and throwing the said Male Child in the Water<lb></lb>
of the said River was Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation<lb></lb>
and Drowning he the said Male Child then and there died. And that<lb></lb>
the said Person or Persons unknown of his her or their Malice<lb></lb>
fore thought the Male Child aforesaid in Manner and from<lb></lb>
aforesaid did then and there kill and Murder against the Peace of<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity<lb></lb>
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n624-13">William Kerr</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ438">Foreman</rs>
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of the said Jurors on the behalf of<lb></lb>
himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,<lb></lb>
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals<lb></lb>
the Day Year and Place abovementioned</p>
<p n="625"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65225_n625-1">Tho. Prichard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65225_occ439">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="626">Wm. Kerr Foreman</p>
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