Middlesex
(to wit.) }

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING, at the House of
Elly Collins< no role > the Sign of the Three Compasses in Little Mary le bone Street
in the Parish of Saint Mary le bone in the County of
Middlesex , the Thirteenth Day of December in the Fortieth 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, and so forth, before George Hodgson< no role > Gent
one of the CORONERS of our said LORD the KING, for the said County, on View of the Body of
Sarah Carpenter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
the several Persons whose Names are hereunder-written and Seals affixed, good and lawful
Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and
charged to inquire, for our said LORD the KING, when, how, and by what Means, the said
Sarah Carpenter came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Sarah Carpenter in the tenth
Day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
the County aforesaid being in a Room there wherein there
was a Fire It so happened that the Cloaths which the said
Sarah Carpenter then and there had on her Body accidentally
took Fire By Means whereof she was very much scorched and
bunt of which said scorching and burning she languished
until the Day of following and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Carpenter in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid accidentally came to her Death
and not otherwise

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said CORONER asthe said Andrew King< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, and the Rest of his said Fellows, have, to his Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals, the Day, Year, and Place first above-written.

Geo: Hodgson< no role > Coroner [mark]
Andw. King< no role > [mark]
John Weston< no role > [mark]
John Sommerfield< no role > [mark]
John Dibble< no role > [mark]
Thos. Hollocombe< no role > [mark]
Geo James< no role > [mark]
Wm Davill< no role > [mark]

Benjn. Evans< no role > [mark]
David [..] [mark]
Edward Wallis< no role > [mark]
Edward Hutchings< no role > [mark]
Daniel Whale< no role > [mark]
Robert Austin< no role > [mark]
Joseph Parsley< no role > [mark]