Southwark

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the [..] sixteenth
day of August in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain and so forth 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 male
infant Child whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown now here lying dead by the oath
of Richard Wood< no role > , John Buckley< no role > , George Stillwell< no role > , Griffith Williams< no role > , Hugh Northam< no role > , Thomas
Grier, James Rider< no role > , James Roscoe< no role > , William Charles< no role > , William Barnett< no role > , James Gowan, Stacey
Claike, Charles Betts< no role > , and George Stead< no role > , good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark
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 male infant Child came to
his death say upon their oath that a certain woman whose name to the Jurors
aforesaid is unknown being big with a certain female Child the same female Child
on the twelfth day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid within the Borough
of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid alone and secretly from her body by the providence
of God did bring forth alive And that a certain person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid
unknown not having the fear of God before his her or their eyes but being moved and seduced
by the instigation of the Devil on the same day and year last aforesaid with force and
Arms at the parishlastaforesaid in the Borough and County aforesaid in and upon the said Male
child in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their
malice aforethought did make an assault and that the said person or persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown
then and there well knowing that the Navel string of the said male child should and ought to be tyed and
fastened immediately after its birth in order to preserve its life but feloniously wilfully and of her his or their
malice aforethought contriving and intending the death of the said male child did then and there feloniously
wilfully and of her his or their malice aforethought neglect refuse and omit to tye and fasten the navel
string of the said male child by reason whereof divers large quantities of blood did then and there flow
and issue forth from and out of the body of the said male child and the said Male child by reason
and means thereof then and there became and was mortally sick and diseased in its body and of
such mortal sickness and disease the said Male Child did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or person to the Jurors
aforesaid as yet unknown the said male Child in Manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously
wilfully and of her his or their malice aforethought did kill 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 unknown at the time of committing the felony and murder aforesaid in manner
and form aforesaid had no goodsandor Chattels within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the
County aforesaid or elsewere to the Knowledge of the said Jurors - In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Richard Wood< 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 written

Richd. Wood< no role > [mark]