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An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
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Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas,
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Prickard, Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
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View of the Body of a new born Male Child then and there lying dead, upon
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the Oath of
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William Kerr
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John Morland
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Ralph
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Peacock
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Charles Lewis
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Christopher Couch
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
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chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
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King, when, how, and by what Means the said new born Male Child came to
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h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the said Eighteenth day of
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April in the Year aforesaid a certain Woman did bring forth the
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said Male Child alive, And that on the same Day and Year the
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said Woman or some other Person or Persons to the Jurors,
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aforesaid as yet unknown with Force and Arms at the Parish
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aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon
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the said Male Infant Child in the Peace of God and of our said Lord
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the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his
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her or their Malice fore thought did make an Assault, And that
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the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown the said
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Male Child into the River near
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Chelsea Bridge
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in the Parish Liberty
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and County aforesaid did then and there feloniously wilfully and
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of his her or their Malice fore thought cast and throw, by Means
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of which said casting and throwing the said Male Child in the Water
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of the said River was Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation
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and Drowning he the said Male Child then and there died. And that
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the said Person or Persons unknown of his her or their Malice
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fore thought the Male Child aforesaid in Manner and from
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aforesaid did then and there kill and Murder against the Peace of
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our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
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In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
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of the said Jurors on the behalf of
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himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence,
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have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
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the Day Year and Place abovementioned
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Wm. Kerr Foreman
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