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 St. 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 Ninteenth day of April in the Eight 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
Joseph Smith< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Turner< no role > , Robert Minnitt< no role > , Mark Last< no role > , George Martin< no role > , John Baker< no role > , Edward
Woodcock< no role > , Martin Waddington< no role > , Joseph Watson< no role > , Thomas Blainey< no role > , George
Jackson< no role > , William Singler< no role > Edward Jay< no role > , Nathaniel Jackson< no role > , James Elley< no role > ,
Joseph Frankland< no role > and John Mullins< 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 Joseph Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That Mary Hyndes< no role > This name instance is in set 3537. late of the Parish aforesaid,
not having the Fear of Good before her Eyes, but moved and seduced by the Instigation of
the Devil, on the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid, with force and Arms,
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon the said
Joseph Smith< no role > the Insant in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the king, then and
there being, feloniously willfully and of her Malicc forethought did make an Assault,
And that the said Mary Hyndes him the said Joseph smith< no role > the Infant did then and
there take into both her Hands, and him the said Joseph smith< no role > into the River then
and there being in Hyde Park , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, then and there feloniously willfully and of her malic forethought
did violently cast and throw; by Means where of he the said Joseph Smith< no role > in
the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned; of
which said Suffocation and Drowing he the said Joseph Smith< no role > then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Mary Hyndes him the siad Joseph Smith< no role > the first in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of her Malic forethought
did kill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King, his Crown
and Dignity. And that the said Mary Hyndes at the time of committing the
Felony and Murder aforesaid, had no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements
within the said County or elsewhere to the Knowledge or Notice of the
said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Thomas Turner< 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Tho: Turner< no role > Foreman