Westminster
City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
}
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint George
Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster
the Twenty third day of February in the frist 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, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty one
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 Female Child then and
there Lying Dead by the Oaths of John Whitbey< no role >
, Thomas Morris< no role >
Mark Warcupp< no role >
, Edward Brook< no role >
, Jasper Smith< no role >
Michael Collins< no role >
, Charles Davis< no role >
,John Elridge< no role >
, John Price< no role >
, John Draper< no role >
, Edward Billam< no role >
, Thomas Harvey< no role >
, William
Sellars< no role >
, William Davis< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign
Lord the King how when where and in what manner the said Female New Bom Child came to her Death, Say
upon their Oaths That Sarah Heath< no role > This name instance is in set 2090.
Late of the Parish of St, George Hanover Square
in the Liberty and County
aforesaid Spinster on or about the Seventeenth day of February Instant
being big with a certain Female Child
afterwards the day and Year aforesaid within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid [..]
Female Child from her Body by the Providence of God did bring forth still Born and Dead, which said
Female Child had it been Born alive would by the Laws of this Realm have been a Bastard., And for
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Female Child on the day
aforesaid in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid, was so brought forth Stillborn and Dead. In
Witness whereof as well the said Corner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this
Inquisition put their hands and Seals the Day Year, and at the Place abovesaid
Jno. Feary< no role >
.
Coroner
John Whitby< no role >
Foreman