Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint Luke Chelsea
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth Day of May in the 22nd. Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third , by the Grace, of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the King, for the said County, on view of the body of a [..] new born female Child
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Christopher Kempster< no role >
William Smee< no role > David Burnsall< no role > Thomas Millward< no role > Edward Simpkin< no role >
Joseph Munday< no role > George Games< no role > Edward Downes< no role > David Egleton< no role > James Howell< no role >
Thomas Wallis< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Richard Waddup< no role > Stephen Wright< no role >
Richard Pickering< no role > Thomas Nicholas< no role > and Flown Chillips< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law, required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said new born female
Child came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That some Person or Persons to the
Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown not having the Trear of God before his, her or their Eyes but
being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Thirteenth Day ofNovemberMay in
the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon
the said New born Female Child in the Peace of God and of 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 so as aforesaid unknown her the said New born Female Child feloniously
Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought into his her or their Hands Did take and into the
River Thames Did then and there last and throw By Means whereof she the said New born
Female Child was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which
said Suffocation and Drowning she the said New born Female child then and there died and so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Person or Persons so as
aforesaid unknown her the said New born Female Child in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought Did kill and murder
against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Christopher Kempster< 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 and Yeat first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Chrisr. Kempster [mark] Foreman