City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of August in the Second 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our
said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of a New born Male Child
(suspected to have been lately Murdered) then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Daniel Bean< no role >
William Brown< no role > , John Jackson< no role > , John Whitaker< no role > William Sherriman< no role > , John Spilsbury< no role > , William Grindall< no role >
William Temple< no role > , James Jones< no role > , Thomas Jerrome< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , William Morley< no role >
Richard Beverstock< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , George Gundry< no role > and John Price< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said
Liberty, 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 on the third day of August in the Year aforesaid one Sarah
Baston
< no role > the Wife of James Baston< no role > being Pregnant with a certain Male Child, afterwards to
Wit, on the same day and Year at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, did bring forth the said Male Child with hard Labour and Ringering Pains;
And that the said Male Child then and there in a difficult Birth without any Ill
Usuge from the said Sarah, Baston the Mother thereof or any other Person or
Persons whatsoever did Dye. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Daniel Bean< no role > 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 Year and Place first abovementioned

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Daniel Bean< no role > [mark] Foreman




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