London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
Parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the ward of Bishopsgate without in London
aforesaid on the thirteenth day of February in the thirty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the Body of Sarah Welch< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Edward
Newberry< no role > William Wylder< no role > Henry Townsend< no role > Walter Rose< no role > Thomas Burberry< no role > Robert Hewitt< no role >
Cornelius Witterwoom< no role > John Mullett< no role > Henry Stent< no role > John Hovat Archibald Kerr< no role > Joseph Essex< no role >
William Bartholomew< no role > John Cotman< no role > William Buckstone< no role > and Solomon Bennett< no role > good and lawful
men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our
said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Sarah Welch< no role > came to her death say upon
their Oath that the said Sarah Welch< no role > on the twelfth day of February in the year aforesaid at the parish
and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being laid to Steep in a certain turn up bed [..] then and there being
in a certain Room belonging to the Dwelling house of oneHarris And one Rose Dapplehill< no role > a Lodger
in the house of the saidHarris coming into the said Room and not knowing that the said [..]
Sarah Welch< no role > the infant was then and there asleep or lying in the said Bed It as happened that the said
Rose Dapplehill< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune then and there innocently turned up the said Bed
by means whereof she the said Sarah Welch< no role > the infant in the Cloaths of the said Bed was then and there suffocated
and smothered of which said suffocation and Smothering she the said Sarah Welch< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Welch< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Edward Newberry< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
presence have to the Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Edd. Newbery< no role > [mark] Foreman