Westminster
City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
}
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. James within
the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster
the twenty ninth day of July
in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
hundred and sixty
. Before John Feary< no role >
Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of
Westminster
aforesaid. Upon a View of the Body of a New Born Male Child then and there Lying Dead
by the Oaths of Charles Stewart< no role >
. James Emerson< no role >
, Daniel Gibson< no role >
, Edward Hurst< no role >
, John Mayhew< no role >
, Stephen Hornworth< no role >
Robert Read< no role >
, John Shepherd< no role >
, Joseph Hubbard< no role >
, John Littlewood< no role >
, Joseph Francis< no role >
, Francis Deshamp< no role >
, David Mc. Callingeth< no role >
Robert Mawley< no role >
, Alexander Simpson< no role >
and Thomas Smith< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign
Lord the King how when where and in what manner the said New Born Male Child came to his Death
Say upon their Oaths. That Mary Bagnoll< no role >
late of the Parish of St. James
in the Liberty and County
aforesaid Spinster on or about the Twenty eighth day of July Instant
being big with a certain Male Child
afterwards the day and Year aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid alone the said Male Child from
her Body by the Providence of God did bring forth Still born and Dead which said Male Child had it been
Born alive would by the Laws of this Realin have been a Bastard. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths
aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Male Child on the day aforesaid in the parish aforesaid in the Liberty
and County aforesaid was so brought forth Stillborn and Dead. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the
day Year and at the place abvesaid
Jno. Feary< no role >
Coroner
Charles Stewart< no role >
foreman