MIDDLESEX
(To Wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Pancras in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh Day of October 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a New born Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Taylor< no role > , Thomas Tuck< no role > , Thomas Hutchison, Philip Castang< no role > William Lee< no role > Thomas Nicholas< no role >
Alexander Weir< no role > Maurice Williams< no role > Benjamin Cullington< no role > Thomas Baber< no role > Thomas Barret< no role >
John Bowles< no role > John Garratt< no role > and William Keith< no role >
good and Lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said New Born Child came to its
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That Some person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet
unknown not having the fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being moved and reduced by
the Instigation of the Devil on the twenty fourth day of October in the Year aforesaid with force and
Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the said new born Child
in the peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously wilfully
and of his her or their malice aforethought did make an Assault And that the said person or
Persons so as aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown the said new born Child did then and there
take into Oath his her or their hands and in a certain Linnen Cloth of no value then and there
feloniously wilfully and of his her or their malice aforethought did wrap up and Tye and
the said new born Child into a certain Privy or Necessary House there situate then and there
feloniusly wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did violently Cast and throw down
by means whereof the said new born Child in the Soil and Filth then and there contained in the said Privy
or Necessary House was then and there suffocated and smothered of which said Suffocation and Smothering
the said new born Child then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said person or persons so as aforesaid to the said Jurors unknown the said new born
Child in manner and by the means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and and of his her or their Malice
aforethought did Hill and Murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown
and Dignity
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Taylor< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
James Taylor< no role > [mark] Foreman