City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex

Informations taken this fifth day of
January 1788 at the Parish of St. Margt
within the Liberty of Westmr . in the County
of Midsex upon an Inquisition touching
the death of a New born Male Child
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County

Thomas Ever< no role > Servant to George Walker< no role > of
King Street Westmr. Poullerey on his Oath
Saith, That last Night about half hour
after Eight he was sent with a Castle of
Towels to Captain Palmer's in Mill Bank
Street, Says that two Boys went with his
and near the Great west Door of St. Margart
Church Dept . saw an Old Woman and young
Girl standing, the Woman being doing something
to her Patter, Dept saw or Parcel lying of
the Ground, and the old Woman said I would
what that is take it up, upon which the
of the Boys with Dept. took it up being
Hat Box tied with a Silk Handkerchief of
Says that he said that they had got a bring
and carried the Hat Box to Mr Drabwer
a Shoemaker in King Street where they
looked into a Corner of the Box and by
discovered it to be a Child, but did not
examine the Child & cannot say whether
the Child was dead or alive, Says that he
carried the Child to Mr. Keir one of the
Church Wardens and left it there, Says that
the Hat Box wat about a Yard from the
Woman when he first saw it and that
the Woman Staid there until the Child was
taken away by this Dept. and the other Boys

Thomas Ever< no role >
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his Mark