London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the fifth
day of July in the thirty fourth 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 for the city of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Charles Danks now
here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Henman< no role > Nathaniel Street< no role > Joseph Hunt< no role > Daniel Miller< no role > William
Sharralt John Yeates< no role > Ralph Monk< no role > John Bush< no role > Hugh White< no role > William Brownjohn< no role > William Morss and
Henry Madgin good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duty chosen sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Charles
Danks came to his death say upon their oath that the said Charles Danks an infant (about the age of
nineteen months) on the third day of July in the year aforesaid being in a certain one pair of Stairs
Room in the dwelling of one John Bush< no role > there situate and being near to the window of the said Room
It so happened that the said Charles Danks accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and
out of the window of the said Room into the yard of and belonging to the said dwelling house
and to upon and against the Stone pavement there by means whereof he the said Charles Danks< no role >
did then and there receive one mortal wound and contusion in and upon the back part of the
head of him the said Charles Danks of which said mortal wound and contusion he the said Charles
Danks from the said third day of July in the year aforesaid until the faith day of the said mouth in the same
year at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
fourth day of July in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said
Charles Danks< no role > of the said mortal bruise and contusion did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Charles Danks in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by
misfortune came to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said Thomas Henman< 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 abovewritten

Thos: Henman< no role > [mark] Foreman