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 first day of August in the twenty sixth
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 Elizabeth Potts< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Lees< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Robert Slack< no role >
William Heath< no role > , Joseph Gibbins< no role > , William Jones< no role > , James Wright< no role > ,
Henry Chapman< no role > , John Shearman< no role > , Robert Roobard< no role > , Thomas
Shankster< no role > This name instance is in set 00. , and Robert Forbes< 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 by Means the said Elizabeth Potts< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Potts< no role > the
Infant, to Wit, of the Age of Eleven Weeks, on the Twenty eighth
day of July, in the Year aforesaid, being in Bed with Sarah
Clements< no role > Mother of the said Elizabeth Potts< no role > in her Lodging
Room in the Dwelling House of Elizabeth Moore< no role > situate in
Oxford Building in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty
and County aforesaid. And the said Sarah Clements< no role > being very
Deaf and in Liquor. It is happened, that the said Elizabeth Potts< no role >
the Instant. Accidentally Casually by Misfortune, was then and
there Suffocated and Smothered, of which said Suffocation and Smothering
She the said Elizabeth Potts< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth
Potts< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to her death. In Witness whereof,
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Lees< 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 above mentioned

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos Lees [mark] Foreman< no role >