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 St. George Hanover Square , within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of December ,
in the third 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 >
Gentleman , Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
a New born Male Childthen and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Daniel Hancock< no role > , John
Newman< no role > , Richard Wallis< no role > , Henry Twentiman< no role > Charles Thierchen< no role > , Michael Collins< no role > , Christopher Spike< no role > , John
Hainslow< no role > , John Jay< no role > , Robert Shallard< no role > , Edward Plastid < no role > George Nelson< no role > , Robert Minnett< no role > , John Joison< no role > , William
Mumford Dowle< no role > , Charles Perkins< no role > and Thomas Sanderson< no role > , good and lawfull 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 Childcame to his
Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Eighteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Woman to the Jurors aforesaid unknown did bear and bring
forth the said Male Child alive, And that the said Woman unknown not having the Fear of God before her Eyes, but being
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, and wickedly intending and devising to Kill and Murder the said Male
Child, on the Day and in the Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in
the County aforesaid, in and upon the said Male Child then and there being alive and in the Peace of God and our said Lord
the King then and there being feloniously [..] and of her Malice forethought did make an Assault And that
the said Woman unknown then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore brought, (with Intent and Design that
the said Male Child might bleed to Death) did refuse neglect and omit to tye and cause to be tyed the Navel String of
the said Male Child, By means whereof the said Male Child did then and there violently bleed through the said Navel
String of the said Male Child, and the said Male Child of the great Effusion and Loss of Blood through his said Navel
String did then and there languish and languishing did live, On which same Day and Year last mentioned the
said Male Child at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, by reason of the great
Effusion and Loss of Blood aforesaid did Dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
the said Woman unknown him the said Male Child in Manner and form aforesaid feloniously wilfully
and of her Malice fore thought 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 Daniel Hancock< no role >
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 Year and Place first
above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Danl. Hancock [mark] Foreman