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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of December in the Se 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 Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Bland< no role > , William Wilkes< no role > James Burn< no role > Franks Rochford< no role > , John
Friston< no role > , William Herxes< no role > Thomas Hedges< no role > , Richard Polyard< no role > , James
Briggs< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > , Joseph Barbary< no role > , John Silk< no role > , Devey
Eaton< no role > and Thomas Cosgrove< 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 what Means the said Male Child came to
h is- Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Thirtieth day of November
in the Year aforesaid one Margaret King< no role > being Pregnant
with a certain Male Child, afterwards, to Wit, on the same
day and Year alone at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid did bring forth the said Male
Child with hard Labour, And that the said Male Child then
and there in a different Birth without unfell [..]
from the said Margaret King< no role > the Mother thereof or any
other Person or Persons whatsoever did die. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Bland< 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

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

John Bland< no role > . [mark] Foreman