MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the thirty first Day of January in the twenty third 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 Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, in View of the Body of
Thomas Bolus< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Vange< no role > Abraham Brown< no role > Thomas Jeggett< no role > John Hammond< no role > Richard
Tomlinson William Pitches< no role > Thomas Orange< no role > William Swan< no role > Richard
Hunts mill< no role > Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. William Smith< no role > and James Harrison< no role >
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 Thomas Bolus< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Bolus< no role > on the Twenty Eighth
Day of January in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two
years and Two Months on thereabouts and being in the Kitchen belonging to the
House of his Father Joseph Bolus< no role > situate in King Street in the Parish of Christ
Church in the County aforesaid in which a Fire was buri [..] It so happened
That the Cotton Gown which he the said Thomas Bolus< no role > had in and were then and
there accidentally casually and by Misfortune Catch'd Fire By Means whereof
the Breast, Body, Legs, and Thighs of him the said Thomas Bolus< no role > were then and
thereaccidentallymortally scorched and burnt of which said Mortal Scorching
and Burning he the said Thomas Bolus< no role > at the Parish last aforesaid And also at the Parish of [..] [..]
White Chapell aforesaid in the County aforesaid to wit in a certain Hospital there
situate called the London Hospital Did Languish for the Space of about
Thirteen Hours and then Died [..] to wit in the Hospital aforesaid And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Bolus< no role >
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Vango< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > Coroner

John Vango [mark] Foreman