MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth Day of November 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 Male Child then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Gough< no role > , Thomas Pike< no role > , John Armstrong< no role > , Samuel Harper< no role > , John Potter< no role > , John Brignall< no role >
Charles Allen< no role > , George Martin< no role > , John Peters< no role > , Joshua Hather< no role > , John Gray< no role > , William Roure, Thomas
Swain< no role > , William Welch< no role > , Richard Needle< no role > , Ralph Hay< no role > , James Cave< no role > , John Skinner< no role > , George Bridge,
and Richard Cooper< 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 Male Child came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That some Person or Persons so the Jurors aforesaid unknown
not having the fear of God before his her or their Eyes but moved and seduced by the Instigation of the
Devil on the twenty ninth day of November in the Year aforesaid with force and Arms at the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the said New Born Male 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 unknown him the
said New Born Male Child did then and there take into both his her or their Hands and him the said
New Born Male Child into a certain Privy or necessary Houses there situate did then and there
feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethoughtdidviolently cast and throw by means
whereof He the said new born Male Child in the Soil and Filth contained in the said Privy or necessary
Hosue was then and there suffocated and smothered of which said suffocation and smothering He the
said new born Male Child then and there instantly died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid to the sd Jurorsaforesaidunknown him the said New
Born Male Child in manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their
Malice aforethought did kill 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 Edward Gough< 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

Edward Gough< no role > [mark] Foreman