MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)

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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth Day of December in the twenty third 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, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a newborn Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Walker< no role > Henry Lack< no role > John Pavie< no role > William Poole< no role > Alexander Spence< no role >
Joseph Venables< no role > John Wallis< no role > William Bissett< no role > John Will< no role > . Nathaniel Bone< no role >
Peter Christie< no role > William Taylor< no role > and Seymour Andrews< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said new born Male Child came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That one Mary King< no role > on the twenty fifth day of December
in the year aforesaid at the parish and in the County aforesaid being nurse to the said
new born male Child did then and there by Mistake give to the said new born Male
Child a certain Quantity (to wit) a Quarter of an Ounce of Spirit of Salts instead of
a Quantity of Oil of Almond s which were intended for the said new born male Child
And the said new born male Child having drank and swallowed down the said
Spirit of Salts so given to him as aforesaid to the said new born male Child then and
there became sick and distempered in his Body and of Sickness and Distemper
aforesaid from the said twenty fifth day of December in the year aforesaid until the
twenty sixth day of [..] the same year at the parish aforesaid in the
County aforesaid did [..] did live on which said twenty
sixth day of December in the Year aforesaid he the said New born Male Child
at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Sickness and Distemper aforesaid
Did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said New
born Male Child in Manner and by the means aforesaid came to his Death

IN WITESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Walker< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos Walker [mark] Foreman