City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the Country of
Middlesex .
to wit.}

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the Country of Middlesex , the Twenty fifth day of February in the Thirtieth
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 Robert an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Nathaniel Cotes< no role > ,Charles Flemming< no role > ,Thomas Brown< no role >
James Conoly< no role > , James Newby< no role > ,Samuel Brooks< no role > , Alexander Martin< no role >
James Rayar< no role > , John Kelvington, Robert Stone< no role > , John Nichols< no role > .
George Bourne< no role > , Alexander Machinzie< no role > , Thomas Manning< no role > , John Jefts
and James Edwards< 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 Female Infant Child came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty fourth day of February
in the Year aforesaid the said Female Infant Child, was in Bed with Hannah Cumming in the dwelling
House of William Roberts< no role > Victualler situate in Oxedan Street in the
said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and
Country aforesaid, and that the said Female Child Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune was then and there suffocated and smothered of
which said Suffocation and smothering she the said Female Child
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Female Child in manner and by the
means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her
Death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Nathaniel Cotes< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Nathl. Colts< no role > [mark] Foreman