Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Mary Le Bone
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fifth Day of June in the 22d 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 Male Child
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Archibald Gray< no role > , Edward
Reeves< no role > , John Minchin< no role > , Edward Langley< no role > , John Russell< no role > , Thomas Denby< no role > , William
Chester, James Ireland< no role > , George Simpson< no role > , William Newman< no role > , John Partington< no role >
James Layndes< no role > John Smith< no role > , Joseph Somerfield< no role > , Edward Davis< no role > and William
Collins

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 Male
Child came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That some Person or Parsons
to the Jurors aforesaid as yet 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 Twenty first Day of June in the Year aforesaid with Force and Grins at the parish aforesaid in the County by aforesaid in and upon the said
New born Male 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
the said New born Male Child in a certain Linnen Cloth of No Value did then and there feloniously
Wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought Wrap up and fold By Means whereof the said,
New born Male Child was then and there suffocated and Smothered of which said suffocation
and Smothering the said New born Male Child then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Person or Person so
as aforesaid as yet the said New born Male 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 Archibald Gray< 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 Year first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

A Gray [mark] Foreman