City & 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 Twenty fifth day of September 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 Female child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edmund
Ball< no role > , Thomas Reid< no role > , William Smith< no role > , John Morgan< no role > , Andrew Emos< no role > , Robert
Saunders< no role > , Edward Edwards< no role > , John Jobbins< no role > , Samuel Foulder< no role > , Joseph
Brown< no role > , David Francis Le Cuyer< no role > Benjamin Ixers< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Richard
Kent< no role > , and Daniel Lynch< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by that what Means the said new born female child came to
her Death do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty third day of September in
the Year aforesaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did
bear and bring forth the said 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 and County aforeasaid, in and upon the said Female Child, in
the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being
Feloniously willfuly and of his her or their Malice fore thought, did make
as 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 fore thought 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 Diginity
In Witness whereof ad well the said Coronor, as the said
Edmund Ball< no role > foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself,
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

The PrickardCoronor
Edmund Ball< no role > Foreman