Southwark

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at the parish
of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the
eighth day of October in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 Garratt< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of James Reed< no role > ,
William Cox< no role > , John King< no role > , James Smith< no role > , Peter Charrier< no role > , Decimus Hayward< no role > , Peter
Miller, Philip Crask< no role > , William Hackston< no role > , James Phillips< no role > , Thomas Graham< no role > , John
Harris, William Jagg< no role > , Jeremiah Holliday< no role > , William Howard< no role > , William Hutchinson< no role > ,
John Savoy< no role > , Josiah Maynard< no role > , and John Lee< no role > , good and lawful men of theCity
Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County 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 Garratt< no role > came to her death say upon thir oath that the said Ann
Garratt an< no role > infant about the age of nine years on the twenty fourth day of September in the
thirty eighth year aforesaid being in a certain room in the dwelling house of-Cruse
situate in the parish of Saint John at Hackney in the County of Middlesex [..]
wherein was a fire It so happened that the Garments and Cloaths which the said
Ann Garratt< no role > then had on her person accidentally casually and by misfortune
caught fire by means whereof the said Ann Garratt< no role > was then and there mortally burned
in and upon her body of which said mortal burning she the said Ann Garratt< no role > from the said
twenty fourth day of September in the year aforesaid until the fourth day of thesameaforesaid
Month of October in the year aforesaid as well at the said parish of Saint John at Hackney
in the County of Middlesex as also at the firstmentioned parish of Saint Thomas within
the Borough and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
fourth day of October in the year aforesaid at the parish last aforesaid within the Borough
of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid the said Ann Garratt< no role > of the said mortal
burning did die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Ann Garratt< 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 James Reed< 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

James Reed< no role > [mark] Foreman