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 Seventeenth day of September 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 the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of a new born Male Child then and there laying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Jarvis< no role > John Mitchell< no role > , Adam Ragg< no role > , Thomas Lowthorp< no role >
William Smith< no role > , George Lewis< no role > , Thomas Bandy< no role > , Edward Cooke< no role >
William Lloyd< no role > , John Spearing< no role > , Samuel Shepherd< no role > , Robert
Nicolls< no role > and Richard Reader< 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 fifteenth day of September in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid a certain
Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did bear and bring forth the said Male Child
alive And that the said Woman unknown not having the fear of God before her Eyes
but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil and wickedly devising and
intending to Kill and Murder the said Male Child, on the Day and in the Year aforesaid
with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
in and upon the said Male Child then and there being alive and in the Peace of God and our
said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought
did make an Assault, And that the said Woman unknown then and there feloniously
wilfully and of her Malice fore thought (with Intent and Design that the said Male Child
might bleed to Death) did refuse neglect and omit to tye and cause to be tied the Navel String
of the said Male Child By Means whereof the said Male Child did then and there violently
bleed through the said Navel String of the said Male Child And the said Male Child of the great
effusion and loss of Blood through his said Navel String did then and there languish and
languishing did live On which same Day and Year last mentioned the said Male Child at
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid by reason of the great Effusion
and Loss of Blood aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
to say that the said Woman unknown him the said Male Child in Manner and Form aforesaid
feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought did kill and Murder against the Peace
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Joseph Jervis< 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 .

Jos Jarvis< no role >
Foreman}