London
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the precinct of Bridewell Hospital in the Ward of Farringdon within
[..] London aforesaid on the twenty third day of July in the thirty ninth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third King of Great Britain 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 a new born male infant Child now
here lying dead by the oath of Thomas William< no role > Smart, Thomas Reynolds< no role > , Roger Owen< no role > ,
Thomas Couling< no role > , John Saunders< no role > , John Harris< no role > , Henry Woodroffe< no role > , Robert Hatton< no role > ,
John Powell< no role > , Samuel Churchill< no role > , Youngs, Littlewood< no role > , and
John Jevry, 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 male infant came to
his death say upon their oath that a certain person or persons whose name
or names to the Jurors aforesaid is or are unknown on the sixteenth day
of July in the thirty ninth year aforesaid with fore and arms at the Precinct aforesaid
in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid in and upon the said the said new born
male infant in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
feloniously wilfully and of his horn or their malice aforethought did make an assault
and that the said person or persons with his her or their hands did then and there
feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought strike and beat
the said new born male infant in and upon the back part of its head giving
to the said new born male infant then and there by such striking and beating
on the back part of its head as aforesaid one mortal bruise in and upon the
said back part of the head of the said new born male infant of which said
mortal bruise the said new born male infant did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said person or persons
whose name or names to the Jurors aforesaid are unknown the said new born
male infant in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of
his her or their malice aforethought did kill and murder against the pear of our
said Lord the King his Crown and dignityAnd that the said person or persons whose
name or names to the Jurors aforesaid are unknown at the twice of committing
the felony and murder aforesaid in form aforesaid had no goods or Chattels
Lands or Tenements within the City of London aforesaid or elsewhere to the knowledge
of the said JurorsAnd that after he she or they had done and committed
the felony and murder aforesaid in form aforesaid with drew himself herself or
themselves and fled for the Same. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Thomas William< no role > Smart the foreman of the said Jurors on 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.

J. Wm. Smart< no role > [mark]