London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Sepulchre without Bishopsgate
in the Ward of Bishopsgate
without in London
aforesaid on the thirteenth day of August
in the thirty third 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 said Lord the King of the City of London
and Borough
of Southwark
on view of the Body of
Ann White< no role >
an infant now here lying dead by the Oath of
Charles Sadler< no role >
John Knight< no role >
John King< no role >
John Compton< no role >
John Copeland< no role >
Thomas Windsor< no role >
John Palmer< no role >
Peter Richardson< no role >
Thomas Metcalfe< no role >
Thomas Eaton< no role >
Joseph Nightingale< no role >
John Grigg< no role >
James Dawson< no role >
William
Furnace
John Davis< no role >
and
Thomas Blissett< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of London
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
Ann White< no role >
came to her death say upon their Oath that the said
Ann White< no role >
on the ninth day of
August in the year aforesaid being in a certain privy in the yard belonging to the dwelling house of
one
Matthew Hubbard< no role >
there situate It so happened that the said
Ann White< no role >
accidentally casually &
by misfortune fell through the Cole in the seat of the said privy into and amongst the filth
of the said privy and in and with the said Dirt and filth was then and there suffocated & droaked
of which said choaking and suffocation the said
Ann White< no role >
did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Ann White< no role >
in manner & by the means
aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally killed In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said
Charles Sadler< 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.
Chas Sadler [mark] Foreman