London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Helen in the Ward of Bishopsgate within in
London aforesaid on the Second day of September 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 Robert Burland< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of John McPherson Thomas< no role > Purvis Thomas< no role > Rudd James< no role >
Abbiss Benjamin< no role > Best Samuel Griffin< no role > James Newby< no role > William Pocock< no role > William
Hall William Whittenbury Samuel Barton< no role > Joseph Cooper< no role > Robert Clark< no role > and John
Boughey 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 Robert Burland< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said Robert Burland< no role > an infant on the thirtieth day of
August in the Year aforesaid being playing on the top of a house of Mossieurs Buller< no role >
and Company there Situate It so happened that the said Robert Burland< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell through a certain Skylight on the said house down
unto upon and against the Stone pavement of a certain hall in the said house
by means whereof the said Robert Burland< no role > did then and there receive
divers mortal bruises in and upon divers parts of his body of which said Mortal
bruises he the said Robert Burland< no role > did then and there [..] instantly die
and So the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do Say that the said Robert
Burland in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by misfortune came to his death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as
will the said Coroner as the said John McPherson 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

Jno. Mc.Pherson< no role >