Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty Second
day of August 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 Henrietta Busby< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Decimus
Hayward,< no role > John Sutton< no role > , John Harris< no role > , Samuel Hales< no role > , William Howard< no role > , William Collier< no role > ,
William Hutchinson< no role > , William Jagg< no role > , William Skinner< no role > , James Flownce< no role > , John Channer< no role > ,
James Archer< no role > , and Christopher Crooks< no role > , good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and chared to inquire for our
said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Henrietta Busby< no role >
came to her death say upon their oath that the said He written Busby on the fourth
day of August in the year aforesaid being near the window in a certainroomtwo
pair of Stairs room in the dwelling house of James Sutherland< no role > situate in the parish
of Saint Mary Lambeth in the County aforesaid It so happened that the said
Henrietta Busby< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of
the said window down upon and against the ground and Stone pavement
there by means where of the said Henrietta Busby< no role > did then and there receive
one mortal wound in and upon the back part of her head of which said
mortal wound she the said Henrietta Busby< no role > from the Said fourth day of August
in the year aforesaid until the twenty first day of the same month of August
in the same year as well at the said Parish of Saint Mary Lambeth in the
County aforesaid as also at the aforesaid parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live. on which said
twenty first day of August in the year aforesaid the said Henriatte Busby< no role > at the
parish last aforesaid with in the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid
of the said mortal wound did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Henrietta Busby< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise. In Witness Where of
as well the said Coroner as the Said Decimus Hayward< 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 wirtten.

Decimus Hayward< no role > [mark] Foreman