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 Ann within the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth day of February in the Fourth 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 New born Female Child then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Peter
Balchin< no role > , John Reed< no role > , Thomas Tovey< no role > , John Sims< no role > , Benjamin Jones< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Thomas Dobson< no role >
Edward Harrison< no role > , Thomas Stilling< no role > , Samuel Blanch< no role > , John Manytharp< no role > , Peter Mounier< no role > , John Henderson< no role >
Joseph Crawford< no role > , and Thomas Munden< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly chosen
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 Female Childcame to her Death do upon
their Oath say That on the Fourth day of February in the Year aforesaid , a certain
Woman Unknown did bring forth a Female Child alive, and that on the same Day and
Year a certain Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown, with Force and
Arms at the said Female Infant Child in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and
upon the said Female Infant Child in the Peace of God and our said Lord the King then and
there being Feloniously, Wilfully and of his her or their Malice fore thought did make an Assault
And that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown then and there
Feloniously Wilfully and of his her or their Malice fore thought the said Female Child
did Choak and Strangle, of which said Choaking and Strangling the said Female Child then
and there instantly Died: And that the said Person or Persons unknown of his her or their
Malice fore thought the said Female Child in Manner and form aforesaid did then and
there Hill and Murder, against the Peace of our said Lord the King his brown and
Dignity. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Balchin< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in
their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Peter Balchin< no role > [mark] Foreman