City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of Saint Jamesin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter at Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the twelfth Day of April in the Second 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 Prickard< no role > Coroner of our said
Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of a Male Infant child then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Wyatt Vaughan< no role > Walter Pencutt< no role > George Boasley< no role > John Marlow< no role > , Walter Johnson< no role >
William Reading< no role > John Hamshaw< no role > William York< no role > Nicholas Row< no role > , Sampson Hooden< no role > , James Jackson< no role > , Stephen Sutton< no role >
Paul Tubbs< no role > , Thomas Burn< no role > , Alexander Steward< no role > and George Galley< no role > good and lawful Men of the
said Liberty, 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 Male Infant Child came to his Death
Do Upon their Oath say, That a certain Woman unknown did lately bring forth the said Male Child alive,
And that the said Woman unknown or some other Person or Persons to the said Jurors unknown on the tenth day
of April in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid
feloniously wilfully and of malice fore thought did convey put and leave the said new born Male Child, then being
alive, in the publick Street and Kings Highway there called the Hay Market , By reason whereof the said Male Chold
then and there in the Publick Street and Highway aforesaid, for want of due Care and other necessaries requisite for
a New born Child, did Perish and Dye; And that the Mother of the said Child unknown or the said other Person or Person
unknown, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously wilfully and of Malice fore thought did Kill and
Murder the said Male Child, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.
In Witness where of, as well the said Coroner, as the said Wyatt Vaughan< no role > Foreman, on the behalf of himself
and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year, and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > . Coroner
Wyatt Vaughan< no role > Foreman