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 Twenty ninth day of January in the Nineteenth 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 Thomas
Bedford< no role > Matthew Charles< no role > , Mark Gibbs< no role > , Robert Broome< no role > John
Richardson< no role > , Thomas Tringham< no role > , Joshua Chapman< no role > , Richard Phillips< no role > ,
Thomas Wilkins< no role > , George Gow< no role > , Joseph Hersfield< no role > William Moore< no role > John Hance< no role >
Charles Bray< no role > , Peter Mortimer< no role > & Robert Salmon< 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 new born Female Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That Mary Ann Henechose< no role > This name instance is in set 719. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . late of the Parish
aforesaid within LIberty and County aforesaid on the Twenty seventh
day of January in the Year aforesaid being big with the said Female
Child, afterwards, to wit, on the same Day in the same Year at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, the said
Female Child did bring forth alive, And that the said Mary Ann
Henechose not having the fear of God before her Eyes, but being
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the same day
in the same Year with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid in and upon the said
Female Child, so alive, and in the Peace of God and of our said
Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of
her Malice aforethought did make an Assault, And that she the said
Mary Ann Henechose the said Female Child did then and there
feloniously wilfully and of her Malice aforethougtht cheak
strangle and suffocate of which said choaking strangling
and Suffocation she the said Female Child then and there
Instantly died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Mary Ann Henechose her the said
Female Child in Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously
wilfully and of her Malice afore thought did kill and Murder against
the Peace of our said Lord the King his brown and Dignity. And that the said
Mary Ann Henechose at the time of committing the Felony and Murder
aforesaid or at any time since had no Goods or Chattles Lands or Tenements
within the said Liberty or elsewhere to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas
Bedford< 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
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Thos: Bedford Foreman