London

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate without
in London aforesaid on the eighteenth day of March in the thirty ninth year 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 Christiana Smith< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of James Frankland< no role > , Peter Leonard< no role > , William Welsford< no role > , George Clode,
Samuel Nash< no role > , William Ferris< no role > , Thomas Cordelle< no role > , William Buckstone< no role > , Solomon Bennett< no role > ,
Thomas Howard< no role > , James Biddle< no role > , Richard Wooten< no role > , James Ward< no role > , and Matthew Good enough,
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 Christiana Smith< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said
Christiana Smith< no role > on the fifteenth day of March in the year aforesaid being going up
certain Hairs in the dwelling house of Peter Binks< no role > [..] situate in the parish and Ward
aforesaid in London aforesaid It so happened that the said Christiana Smith< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down the said stairs and did there stay
then and there receive one mortal bruise and fracture in and upon her forehead
of which said mortal bruise and fracture she the said Christiana Smith< no role > did then and there
instantly dieand so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Christiana Smith< 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 Frankland< 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 Frankland< no role > [mark]