London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London afsd. on the
twenty first day of March in the thirty first 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of southwark
on view of the Body of Martha Pritchard< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of William Robert< no role > James
Thompson William Stephens< no role > David Dring< no role > John Newman< no role > Thomas Massey< no role > Prince Edward King< no role >
John Butcher< no role > Andrew Broughton< no role > George Noore< no role > Samuel Miller< no role > William Atkinson< no role > William Wilson< no role >
Richard Thompson< no role > William Wrathall< no role > John Champion< no role > Benjamin George< no role > Thomas Hatfield< no role >
Thomas Collingridge< no role > Robert Watter< no role > and Daniel Neal< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
what manner the said Martha Pritchard< no role > same to her death say upon their Oath that [..]
Edward Pritchard< no role > late of London Labourer not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and
reduced by the indigation of the David on the seventeenth day of March in the thirty first Year aforesaid with
force and arms at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid in and upon the said Martha in
the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his Malice
afore thought did make an assault and that the said Edward with a certain wooden stock of the value of one
Penny which he the said Edward in both his hands then and there had and held and with both the hands
of him the said Edward her the said Martha in and upon the head face back sides fully grain Arms legs
and thighs of her the said Martha then and there feloniously wilfully and of his Malice afore thought die
divers time strike and beat giving to her the said Martha then and there by such s [..] king and beating of her
the said Martha with the wooden stick aforesaid and with the hands of him the said Edward One Mortal
fracture in and upon the back part of the head often the said Martha and one Mortal wound in and upon
the said back part of the head of her the said Martha of the length of one Inch and the depth of half an Inch
and also drivers mortal bruises in and upon the back sides belly grain Arms by and thighs of her the
said Martha of which said mortal fracture wound and bruises she the said Martha from the said [..]
seventeenth day of March in the year aforesaid until the eighteenth day of the same month of March in the
same Year at the Parish and Ward aforesaid at London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live
On which said eighteenth day of March in the thirty first year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid the said Martha of the said mortal fracture wound and bruises did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward her the said Martha in manner and by the
means aforesaid Feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought did kill and Murder against the
Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and dignity. And that the said Edward at the time of Committing
the Felony and Murder aforesaid or at any time since had no Goods or Chattels Lands or tenements within
the City of London or elsewere to the knowledge of the said Jurors In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year and Place
first above written.

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