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 Twentieth 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
Elizabeth Simpson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Brown< no role > , Thomas Bown< no role > , Henry Semmelman< no role > , James Arnold< no role > , Sebastian Wise, Benjamin
Bradberry< no role > This name instance is in set 4642. , Daniel Bishop, William Wills< no role > , John Monk< no role > , Stephen Rise< no role > , Henry Page< no role > , Thomas
Merritt, George Wright< no role > , John Francis< no role > , John Shepherd< no role > , Thomas Secker< no role > , Nicholas Gordelier< no role > , Daniel
Delacourt, John Knight< no role > , Thomas Baker< no role > , John Towell< no role > and Jarvis Boucher< 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 Elizabeth Simpson< no role > This name instance is in set 4045. came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That John Simpson< no role > This name instance is in set 4048. late of the Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid Labourer not having the Fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by
the Instigation of the Devil on the seventeenth Day of March in the Year aforesaid with Force and
Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role >
his late wife in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and there being feloniously
wilfully and of his malice aforethought did make an Assault And That the said John Simpson< no role >
with a certain Penknife made of Iron and Steel of the Value of six pence which he the said John
Simpson then and there had and held in his Right Hand her the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > in and
upon the Left Side of the Body of her the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > did then and there feloniously wilfully and of his malice aforethought strike stab and
penetrate And that the said John Simpson< no role > did then and there give unto the said Elizabeth
Simpson with the Penknife aforesaid in and upon the said Left Side of her the said Elizabeth
Simpson one Mortal Wound of the Breadth of One Quarter of an Inch which penetrated the Lungs
of her the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > of which said mortal wound she the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > from
the said seventeenth Day of March in the year aforesaid untill the Eighteenth day of the same month on
the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live On which
said Eighteenth Day of march in the Year aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > at the Parish aforesaid
in the County aforesaid of the mortal wound aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say That the said John Simpson< no role > her the said Elizabeth Simpson< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his 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 Joseph Brown< 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
Joseph Brown [mark] Foreman