London
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T Shelton Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say, at the Parish of Allhallows
London Wall in the Ward of Bread Street in London aforesaid on the twentieth day of March in the twenty ninth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God and Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith Etc. before
Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of a
female infant Child now here lying dead by the oath of John Newball, John Phillips< no role > , Thomas Wikerill, Thomas Bowlby< no role > , Mary Cabe, Joseph Joslin, John Marris, James Delsgall, Richard Sandford< no role > , John Davis< no role > , James Copous, Anthony Moreland< no role > , Jonathan Pegram< no role > ,
Abbot Kent< no role > Thomas Pearson< no role > , James Percival< no role > and Robert Padden good and lawful men of the city of London aforesaid who being now here duly
chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said female child came to her death
say upon their oath that a certain person whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is yet unknown then lately before being big with a certain
female child the said female child alone and secretly from her Body by the providence of God then lately before did being forth alive And that a
certain person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid asked unknown not having the fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being moved and reduced by
the instigation of the Devil on the eighteenth day of March in the year aforesaid at London, that is to say at the Parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid in and upon the said female child in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously willfully and of his her or
their notice afore thought did make an assaull and that the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown to tie the Navel String of the
said female child so there lately before born of the body of her the said favour whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is as yet unknown as aforesaid the and
there feloniously wilfully and of his her or their notice aforethought did angled refuse and omit By reason whereof divers large quantities of Blood
did then and there omit and issue forth from the body of the said female child and the said female Child by means of the omitting and issuing forth
of the Blood from her Body as aforesaid and from the loss thereof then and their because and was mortally sick and weak in her body And that the
old person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown the throat of the said female child with the hands of him her or the said person or
persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice afore thought did violently square and grasp By
means whereof he she or they the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown the said female child then and there feloniously wilfully
and of his her or their malice afore thought did chark and strangle Of which said mortal sickness and weakness in the Body of the said female child
by she omitting and issusing forth for the blood from the body of the said female child and from the lope thereof as aforesaid by reason of the neglecting
refusing and omitting to lie that Navel String of the said female child as aforesaid and of the said cheaking and strangling of said female child
the said female child did then and their instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid whose their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons
to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown the said female child in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their
malica aforethought did kid and murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his crown and Dignity And that the said person or persons to the
Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown at the time of committing the felony and murder aforesaid or at any tune sence had goods are chattels lands or
tinements within the City of London aforesaid or elsewhere to the knowledge of the said Jurors And the Jurors aforesaid when their oath aforesaid do fial her
say tht after the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown had done and committed the felony and under aforesaid in manner and
form aforesaid he she or they withdrew and fled for the same In Witnesses whereof as well as the said coroner as the said John Newball< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first
above wirtten

John Newball< no role > [mark]