City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Intended taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Fifth day of October, 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 Female Child then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Freeman< no role > , Richard Pawson< no role > Thomas Burt< no role > ,
John Sutherland< no role > , George Field< no role > , William Harris< no role > , William Ekins< no role > , Nathaniel Grant< no role > , Humphrey Hughes< no role > ,
James Smart< no role > , John Parrot< no role > , James Burn< no role > Henry East< no role > , Andrew Rogers< no role > , John Phyn< no role > , James Wild< no role > , John Dickins< no role >
and John Wilkinson< no role > ,good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chose, 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 Child came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on
the Fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid, the said Female Child was found in
a Coffin, within a Leather Trunk in the Dwelling House of John Nutting< no role > , situate
and being in a certain Street called Long Ditch, in the Parish aforesaid within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said Female Child departed this Life,
soon after its Birth, in a Natural Way, and not from at [..] Hurt or Injury received
from any Person or Persons whatsoever, to the knowledge of the said Jurors; nor had the
said Female Child any Marks of Violence appearing on its Body. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Freeman< no role > , on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his Fellow Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prichard< no role > Coroner .
Thomas Freeman< no role >