City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord
the King at the Parish of Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in the
County of Middlesex
, the Eighth day of January in the SixthYear 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 >
Gentlem-
an 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
Thomas
Monk< no role >
,
John Roff< no role >
,
John Banks< no role >
,
Thomas Sawyer< no role >
,
William Jackson< no role >
,
Thomas Freeman< no role >
,
Thomas Lamb< no role >
,
Robert Perryman< no role >
,
John Hepworth< no role >
,
George Field< no role >
,
James Bronnon< no role >
,
John Blatch< no role > This name instance is in set 2765.
,
Matthew Walker< no role >
and
Henry Slawson< 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 mea
ns the said New born Female Child Came to her Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said New born Female Child on the Eighth day of January in the Year
aforesaid, was found Dead in a certain Place called the Green Market, situate and being
in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Mark
of Violence appeared on the Body of the said New born Female Child, and
[..]
said Female Child was still Born. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said
Thomas Monk< no role >
Foreman of the 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 abovewritten
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
Thos Monk< no role >
Foreman