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 Twenty third day of August in the Twenty third
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 he said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Esling< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Hickinbottom< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , Charles Kandler< no role > ,
Thomas Williams< no role > , George Godwin< no role > , James Cummins< no role > , William
Vanryne< no role > , Thomas Andrew< no role > Thomas Williams< no role > , John Rush< no role >
William Clement< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , Richard Savage< no role > ,
John Showler< no role > William Adams< no role > , Jeremiah Moore< no role > , Robert
Ray< no role > and Robert Strand< 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 John Esling came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said John Esling an
Infant of the age of Six Years (suspected to have been
Murdered) on the Twenty first day of August in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, departed this
Life, by the Visitation of God in a natural Way,
and not by any Injury received from Sarah Ray< no role >
or any other Person to the Knowledge of the said
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Hickinbottom< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jno. HickinbottomForeman