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 Thirteenth day of September 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 Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Beach< no role > Charles Howard< no role > , Samuel Titmus< no role > , Henry Hughes< no role > William
Drewit< no role > , James Beckett< no role > , John Deschamp< no role > ,Thomas Bowen< no role >
John Wood< no role > , Edward Green< no role > John Percey< no role > Charles Harvey< no role > , John
Brissenden< no role > and Thomas Rising< 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
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That a certain Woman unknown did
lately bring forth the said Male Child alive, and that the said
Woman Unknown or some other Person or persons to the
said Jurors unknown on the Twelfth day of September in he
Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, Feloniously willfully and of
Malice afore thought did make an Assault, in and upon the said
Male Child, And that the said Woman unknown or some other Person or
Persons unknown him the said Male Child into a certain Ditch there
at Pimlico feloniously wilfully and of Malice afore thought did
cast and throw, By reason whereof the said Male Child in the Water
in the said Ditch was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Male Child then and there
died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Woman unknown or some other Person or Persons unknown
him the said Male Child in Manner and Form aforesaid feloniously
wilfully and of Malice afore thought did Kill and Murder against the
Peace of our said Lord the King his County and Dignity In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Richard Beach< 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

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