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 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 Fifteenth 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 > Gentleman Coroner aforesaid son
the King for the said City and Liberty on view of the Body of a New born Male Child Then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Mark Cotter< no role > , William Manfield< no role > , Richard Dowle< no role > ,
John Mullins< no role > , Peter Anderson< no role > , Edward Placston< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , Thomas Curney< no role >
Edward Taylor< no role > , William Morris< no role > , James Fryer< no role > and Joseph Watson< 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 male Childcame to his Death, do upon their Oath say that
on the fourteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County apresaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unkown, did bear and bring forth the
said Male Child alive, and that the said Woman unknown not having the fear of god before her Eyes, but being
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, and wickedly devising and intending to hill and murder
the said Male Child on the Day and in the year aforesaid, with force and arms, at the parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said male Child then and there being alive [..]
in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously fully and of her Malice forethought
did make an Assault, and that the said Woman unknown then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice
forethought, (with Intent and Design that the said male Child might Bleed to Death) did refuse neglect and omission
to tye or cause to be tyed, the Navel String of the said Male Child, by means whereof the said Male Child
did then there violently Bleed through the said Novel String of the said Male Child, And that the said
Male Child by reason of the great diffusion and Loss of Blood through his said Novel String, then
and there did die. And se the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Woman
unknown, him the said Male Child, in Manner and form aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of
her Malice forethought did fill 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 Mark
Cotter, 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

Tho Richard< no role >
Coroner
Mark Potter< no role >
Foreman