London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the Parish of Saint Augustine in the Ward of Farringdon within in London
aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of November in the thirty fifth 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 Margaret Harris< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Hawking< no role > Edward Penny< no role > John
Crisps Robert< no role > Seabrook William Enson James Slan James Pryce Morgan Michel Isaac
Moore John Bodman Robert Grant Garnet< no role > William Rose< no role > Edward Williams< no role > William
Simmons< no role > and Henry Brind< no role > Robert Sainsbury< no role > Benjamin Croker< no role > and Samuel Shipley< 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 Margaret Harris< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that on
the twenty fifth day of November in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid the said Margaret Harris< no role > being sitting near a certain fire place
in a certain room wherein there was then a fire in the dwelling house of one
Nicholl there situate It so happened that the garments and cloaths which the said
Margaret Harris< no role > then had on accidentally casually and by misfortune caught fire
by means whereof the said Margaret Harris< no role > was then and there mortally burned of which
said mortal burning she the said Margaret Harris< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Margaret Harris< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was burned to death In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Hawkins< 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 Hawkins< no role > [mark] Foreman