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 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 Fourth day of June in the Fourteenth 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
Jane Turner< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Spencer Draper< no role > ,
John Middleton< no role > , Thomas Stains< no role > , James Harfield< no role > , Lewis Dupuis< no role > , William Clark< no role > ,
Benjamin Cook< no role > , Thomas Acomb< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , John Head< no role > , Edmund Long< no role > , Alexander
Black< no role > , Benjamin Cann< no role > and John Riley< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Jane Turner< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That a Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid
as yet unknown not having the Far of God before his her or their Eya but being moved and seduced by Ex Instigation of the Devil on the Twenty fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid at
the Parish aforesaid with in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with Force and
Arms, in and upon the said Jane Turner< no role > in the Peace of God and our said Lord the
King then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice
afore though did make an Assault, And that the said Person or Persons to the
Jurors aforesaid unknown, with a certain Linnen Handkerchief which the said
Person or Persons unknown feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice
afore thought about the Neck of the said Jane Turner< no role > did then and there tye and
fasten, her the said Jane Turner< no role > did then and there Choak and Strangle
of which said Choaking and Strangling she the said Jane Turner< no role > then and there
died. And that the said Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknown
her the said Jane Turner< no role > to the Bason in Hyde Park in the Parish
Liberty and County aforesaid did afterwards cast and throw. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Person
or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown her the said Jane
Turner< no role > in Manner and form aforesaid, feloniously wilfully and of his
her or their Malice afore thought did kill and Murder, against the Peace of
our said Lord the King his brown and Dignity. In Witness where of
as well the said Coroner, as the said Spencer Draper< 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 > Coroner .

Spencer Draper< no role > Foreman