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 St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex ; the Third day
of November in the Seventh 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 Child then and there lying dead; upon the Oath of William Eyre< no role >
John Stoddard< no role > , Dennis McGuier< no role > , Thomas Rogers< no role > , George Worsley< no role > , Thomas Knight< no role > , John
Atkinson< no role > Henry Stainhoff< no role > , Benjamin Johnson< no role > , Humphry Fort< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , James Gill< no role > , William Morris< no role >
Charles Cutter< no role > , Edward Elliston< no role > , and Thomas Pegg< no role > , good and lawfull Man 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 Childcame to its Death, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Child on the Second day of November in the Year aforesaid, was found dead in
a wooden Box, in a certain Entry or Passage in Castle Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, that no Marks of Violence appeared on the said Child,
And that the said Child departed this Life, soon after its Birth in a natural Way, and
not by any hurt or Injury received from any Person or Persons to the knowledge of the
said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William Eyre< 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

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm: Eyre Foreman