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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the seventeenth day of December in the thirtysecondthird 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman
Coroner of our Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view
of the Body of Frances Burrows< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John Blacket< no role > , Thomas
Taylor, William King< no role > , John Hunt< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Richard Morrison< no role > , William Morss,
William Brown< no role > john, Robert Read< no role > , Ralph Monk< no role > , John Dolphin< no role > , Richard Hale< no role > ,
William Bamsted< no role > , John Brockholes< no role > , Lewis Cole< no role > and Heray Madgin, good and lawful
men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for
our sd Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Francis Burrows< no role > came to
her death say upon their Oath that the said Francis Burrows< no role > on the fourteenth day of
December in the year aforesaid being in a certain room in the dwelling house of me James
Burrows situate in the parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex and then and
there being near the fire place situate in the said room wherein there was then a fire
It so happened that the Cloaths and wearing apparel of the saidJamesFrances Burrows did
then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune catch fire and were consumed
and the said Frances Burrows< no role > with the flames arising from the said fire was then
and there mortally burned of which sd burning she the said Frances Burrows< no role > as well
at the said parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex as also at the said
parish of Saint Bartholomew the loss aforesaid in the ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live until the fifteenth day of December
in the year aforesaid when the said Frances Burrows< no role > at the parish last aforesaid in the ward
aforesaid in London aforesaid of the said Burning did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Frances Burrows< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was burned and killedIn Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Blackett< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on 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.

John Blacklet< no role > [mark] Foreman