Middlesex
(to wit.) }

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING; at the Middlesex
Hospital situate in Charles Street in the Parish of Saint
Mary le bone in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty sixth 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
Henry Platt< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. 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
Henry Platt< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Henry Platt< no role > on the twenty first
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
happen'd that the Cloaths which the said Henry Platt< no role > then and
there had on his Body accidentally took Five By Means whereof
he was very much scorched and burnt of which said Scorching
and burning he languished until the Day following and
then died to wit at the Middlesex Hospital And so the
Jurors aforesaid do say that the said Henry Platt< no role > in Manner
and by the Manes aforesaid accidentally came to his Death
and not otherwise

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said CORONER asthe said Thomas Shepherd< 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]
Thos Shepherd< no role > [mark]
Jos. Brown< no role > [mark]
John Blanchand< no role > [mark]
Geo Clivley [mark]
Thos Sanvill< no role > [mark]
[..] Pearce [mark]
Joseph [..] [mark]
Rt Kerwood< no role > [mark]

John Akerman< no role > [mark]
Elias Targett< no role > [mark]
Joseph Rawlinson< no role > [mark]
Willm. Clerke< no role > [mark]
Robt. Pitt< no role > [mark]