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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses Taken and Acknowledged on<lb></lb>
the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King the Twentieth day of<lb></lb>
March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty five At the<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50546_n1-1">Joseph May</rs>
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One of the Coroners of Our said Lord<lb></lb>
the King for the said County touching the Death of a new born<lb></lb>
Male Child then and there lying Dead as follow (to wit)</p>
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Saith That Monday Might last the wth. March about five o Clock as<lb></lb>
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Order to go on bord he saw One <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50546_n2-3">Joseph Virtue</rs>
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who was in a<lb></lb>
Boat then lying near the Ferry take up the said Child with<lb></lb>
Boat hook That the Child was in A Luinmen Handkershief<lb></lb>
Prined with Two pins and fastned to a Hoop with several<lb></lb>
Nails in it But he Believes One of the Nails had only<lb></lb>
Calld hold of the Handkerchief after the Child was put in the<lb></lb>
Water for it dropped off as soon as taken up</p>
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was<obscured></obscured>
bd off the back part of the head and its Thighs which he<lb></lb>
Believes was done by its being beat about in the Water<lb></lb>
and it had no Marks of Violence about it</p>
<p n="4">Taken and Acknowledged the Day<lb></lb>
and Year and at the Place<lb></lb>
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Cannon</rs>
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