MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex the Twenty third Day of December 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
George Berrier< no role > , John Allen< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > , William Edmonds< no role > William Eagelslane< no role > , Aaron Patrick< no role >
Edward Green< no role > Chennery Martin< no role > Benjamin Hamilton< no role > Anthony Burn< no role > , Ralph Stokeld< no role > Edwin
Swain Joseph Radden, John Balls< no role > , John King< no role > Thomas Forster< no role > and John Phillips< 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 to the Jurors aforesaid as yet
unknown not having the Fear of God before his, her or their Eyes but being moved and seduced
by the Instigation of the Devil on the Twentieth Day of December 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 with both his, her or their Hands in a certain Basket called on Hand Basket then
and there feloniously wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought did tie and fasten
and him the said New born Male Child in the Basket aforesaid [..] tyed and fastened as aforesaid
into a certain River called The River Lee near to a Place called The Eddy Reach in the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice
aforethought did violently cast and throw By means whereof he she said Newborn Male Child
was in the Waters of he said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which Suffocation
and Drowning 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 was aforesaid unknown
him the said Newborn 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 George Berner< 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

Geo. Berner [mark] Foreman