Middlesex
to wit.{
An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Finchley
in the County of Middlesex
, the 25th Day of March in the 23d Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third
, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
Elizabeth Heath< no role >
an Infant
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Wager< no role >
Allen Parsons< no role >
,
John Crockford< no role >
,
William Smallbourn< no role >
, Samuel Fone,
Joseph
Towers< no role >
James Webb
Thomas Hunt< no role >
Thomas Taunton< no role >
,
William Sanders< no role >
Jonathan Dixon< no role >
and
Thomas Mead< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
Elizabeth Heath< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth
Heath or the Twenty second Day of March in the Year aforesaid being an Infant
of the Age of One Year and an half or thereabouts accidentally casually and
by misfortune fell into a Pan of Suds
And was therein suffocated and
Smothered of which said Suffocation and Smothering she the said Elizabeth
Heath then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said
Elizabeth Heath< no role >
in manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to her Death
In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Wager< 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 and Year first abovementioned
E:Umfreville [mark] Coronr.
Thos Wager [mark] Foreman