MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House of
Elizabeth Polly known by the Sign of the Baker Arms in the Parish of Saint Luke Old Street in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of April 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 > Esquire
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
Joseph Banks< no role > , Samuel Knight< no role > , Richard Maund< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , Benjamin Castletine< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , James Smith< no role > , James
Brown, John Valentine< no role > Robert Pollard< no role > , Edward Bradbridge< no role > William Bonner< no role > , William Coppin< no role > , Ralph Brown< no role > , John Scott< no role >
Lewis Dewey< no role > , and William Snow< 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 Frances Lewis< no role > late of the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Singlewoman
on the Ninth Day of April in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid in and upon one Ann
Rose with A Certain male Child and then and there being in the peace of God and of our said Lord the King Violently and Feloniously did
make an Assault And that the said Frances Lewis< no role > with both her Hands her the said Ann Rose< no role > in and upon the Head Face Back Belly
Arms and Wrists of her the said Ann Rose< no role > did then and there divers times Violently and Feloniously Strike and beat and that the said
Frances Lewis< no role > did also then and there With both her Hands Violently and Feloniously Cast and throw the said Ann Rose< no role > down to
and against the Ground there and that the said Frances Lewis< no role > did then and there as well by such Striking and beating of the said Ann
Rose with both her Hands aforesaid as by such Casting and throwing of the said Ann Rose< no role > to and against the Ground as aforesaid give
unto the said Ann Rose< no role > being Pregnant with the said Male Child as aforesaid divers Violent Bruises upon the Head Face Back Belly Arms
and Wrists of her the said Ann Rose< no role > so being Pregnant as aforesaid Whereby the said Male Child with which she the said Ann Rose< no role >
was then and there Pregnant as aforesaid Received divers Mortal Wound and Bruises in and upon his Head Face Back Belly
Arms and Wrists in the Womb of her the said Ann Rose< no role > And that She the said Ann Rose< no role > Afterwards to wit on the Eleventh Day of the said
Month of April about Eight of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same Day in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid
brought forth the said Male Child Alive And that the said Male Child subornative as aforesaid of the Mortal Bruises so received by
the said Male Child in the Womb of his said Mother the said Ann Rose< no role > did languish and Languishing and Languishing did live
for three hours next after his Birth to wit at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid And that the said Male Child at the Expiration
of the said three hours of the Mortal Wounds and Bruises aforesaid so received in the Womb of his said Mother the said Ann Rose< no role > as
aforesaid on the same Day and in the same Year last aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Frances Lewis< no role > him the said Male Child in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
feloniously did Kill and Hay against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity And that the said Frances
Lewis at the time of the Committing the Felony aforesaid or at any time since had not any Goods or Chattels Lands or
Tenements within the said County or else where to the Knowledge or Notice of the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Banks< 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
Jos Banks [mark] Foreman