MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fifth Day of April 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, on View of the Body of
John Foots< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Hunter< no role > , Benjamin Pike< no role > , James Humphreys< no role > , Thomas Muir< no role > , Robert Laxton John
Wade, Richard Cole< no role > , William Evans< no role > , James Hawker< no role > , Edward Richards< no role > , William Robinson< no role > , Charles
Lacey< no role > , John Simmons< no role > , Robert Rymell< no role > , Robert Rymell< no role > Junior, Isaac Chapman< no role > , Christopher, Mears< no role >
Thomas Henly< no role > , Joseph Hawes< no role > , Robert Flo [..] ey, Thomas Thorn< no role > , Thomas Clifford< no role > , William Eldridge< no role >
Stephen Briant< no role > and Charles Ashmore< 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 John Foot< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Foot< no role > on the Twenty second Day
of April in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen Months or
thereabouts And being laid to Sleep on a Bed in a certain Burcan Bedstead then and there being
in a Room called the club Room in the Dwelling House of his Father James Foot situate in the Parish
and County aforesaid And Agna Scott< no role > the Servant of the said James Foot [..] (alhough she
[..] had Put the said John Foot< no role > into the said Bedstead) not Recollecting that the said John Foot< no role > the Infant was then
and there a sleep or lying in the said Bedstead It so happened That the said Agna
Scott accidentally, casually and by Misfortune then and there innocently turned
up the said [..] Bedstead By Means whereof he the said John Foot< no role > the Infant in the
Cloaths of the said Bed was then and there suffocated and smothered of which
said Suffocation and Smothering he the said John Foot< no role > then and there died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John
Foot 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 William Hunter< 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

Willm HunterForeman