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 Saint Ann 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
Februaryin the FifthYear 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 Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Cubbidge< no role > , James
Tapscot< no role > , John Glazier< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > , Stephen Fryer< no role > , John Malpas< no role > , Stephen Larche< no role > , Walter Bannister< no role > , Christopher Chamber< no role >
Matthew Green< no role > , Thomas Medhurst< no role > , Joseph Fisher< no role > , James Tregent< no role > , John Bennett< no role > , Andrew Recheir< no role > , William Draycott< no role >
Robert Jefferson< no role > , and Richard Cole< 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 New born Female Child came to her Death, Death, do upon their Oath
say, that on the thirteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid, a certain Woman unknown, did bring
forth a Female Child alive, and that on the same day and Year a certain Person or Persons to the
Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, in and upon the said Infant Child in the Peace of
God and our said Lord the King then and there being Feloniously Wilfully and of his her
or their Malice forethought did make an Assault, And that the said Person or Persons
to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did then and there Feloniously wilfully and of his her or
their Malice forethought Choak and Strangle the said Female Child, of which said Choaking
and Strangling the said Female Child then and there instantly died; And that the said Person
or Persons unknown of his her or their Malice forethought the Female Child aforesaid in
Manner and form aforesaid did then and there Kill and Murder against the Peace of our
said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Cubbidge< 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 above written

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
Wm. Cubbidge< no role > Foreman