MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mathew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the Thirteenth Day of March 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
William Hebert< no role > , William Cordell< no role > , Thomas Bing< no role > , Peter Loricke< no role > , William Greenwood< no role > , Samuel Sodo, Francis
Bandry, Richard Bywater< no role > , Francis Chansac, William Morris< no role > , James Holmes< no role > , John Johnson< no role > , Thomas
Wolveridge Joseph Robertson< no role > , James Jacob Lemaitre, John Andrien< no role > John Foot< no role > and
William, Wolveridge< 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 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 tenth Day of March 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 into a certain piece of Cloth called Callico of no Value then and there feloniously
wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did wrap and fold and him the said New Born Male
Child in a certain Ditch there wherein was a Great Quantity of Snow did put and leave by means
whereof and for want of due care in the Birth of him the said New Born Male Child he the said New Born
Male 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 unknown 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 William Hebert< 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
William Hebert [mark] Foreman