Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the Country of Surrey on the third day
of January on the thirty seventh year of of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
third King of Great Britain 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 Ann Bigsbee< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Guinsted< no role > John Smith< no role > John Timbrell< no role >
John Levridge< no role > Daniel Harris< no role > George Hawes< no role > William Clark< no role > Richard Norris< no role > John
Burrows and William Suall< no role > John Soons< no role > Timothy Newland< no role > and William Edmondson< no role >
good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 Ann Bigsbee< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said
Ann Bigsbee< no role > on the first day of January in the year aforesaid being in a certain two
pair of Stairs room in the dwelling house of George Hastings< no role > there situate wherein there
was then a fire It so happened that the cloaths and wearing apparel which the said
Ann Bigsbee< no role > then had on accidentally casually and by misfortune caught fire and the said
Ann Bigsbee< no role > by means thereof was then and there mortally burned of which said mortal
burning the said Ann Bigsbee< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid so say that the said Ann Bigsbee< no role > in a 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 John Guinsted< 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 Guinstead< no role > [mark] Foreman