London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate without in London aforesaid on the Twelfth day of August in
the thirty first 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 Shilton< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of John
Cheaker nowhere lying dead by the Oath of Toon Lamain< no role > John Garsden William Dawson< no role > Edward
Gibson Thomas< no role > Judd Samuel Grinsdale Charles Heath< no role > Thomas Dodson< no role > Thomas Budd< no role > William Wylder< no role >
Edward Harris< no role > James Wharfe William Buckston< no role > Henry Stent< no role > John Collman< no role > and William
Bortholomew< no role > good and lawfulmen of the Parish and Ward aforesaid hobeing now here duly
Chosen Sworn and charged to inquire for out said Lord the King when how and in what manner the
said John Choaker< no role > came to his Death say upon their Oath that the said John Choakeron< no role >
the tenth day of August in the thirty first year aforesaid being employed in the building and
finishing a certain House shall in the parish and ward aforesaid and then being in the said House
It so happened that the said House acidentally casually and by misfortune caught five and
was Consumed and the said John Choaker< no role > so being in the said House with the Flames of the
said Fire was then and there mortally Burned of which said Burning the said John
Choaker did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said John Choaker in manner and by the means aforesaid casually
and by misfortune was accidentally Burned and Killed In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Ivon Lenain< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in the their presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and place first abovewritten

Ivon Lemain [mark] Foreman