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

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of January
in the Fourth 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, Female Childthen and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Whitmey< no role >
William Hodson< no role > , Alexander Hay< no role > , John Beardmore< no role > , William Mason< no role > , William Williams< no role > , William Dorset< no role > ,
Daniel Luckhurst< no role > , John Waltham< no role > , Henry Bachan< no role > , Edward Filder< no role > , James Moody< no role > , William Sabin< no role >
and Abraham Burnell< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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 Female Childcame to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That
on the thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid, one Ann Gascoine, Servant
to the Right Honourable the Lady Tyrconnel, being Pregnant with a certain Female
Bastard Child, afterwards, to Wit, on the same Day and Year, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, did bring forth the said
Female Bastard Child with hard Labor and lingering Pains; and that the
said Female Bastard Child then and there in a difficult Birth did Dye, without
any hurt or Injury received from the said Ann Gascoine< no role > the Mother thereof, or any
other Person to the Knowledge of the said Jurors, And that no Marks of Violence
appeared on the Body of the said New Born Female Bastard Child. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Whitmey< no role > , 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 Year and Place
first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thomas Whitmey< no role >
Foreman