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 first Day of May in the Twenty fifth 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
Jane Simner< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Richards< no role > , John Duggin< no role > , Francis Mackennis< no role > , Robert West< no role > , John Bankes< no role >
William Hall< no role > , Frances Bates< no role > , Benjamin Neave< no role > , Robert Hall< no role > , Richard Watts< no role > , Henry
Butterfield< no role > , Thomas Weston< no role > , William Coleman< no role > , Douglas Wyer< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Joseph
Hawes< no role > , William Evans< no role > , John Sams< no role > and John Richardson< 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 Jane Simner< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Jane Simner< no role > on the Eleventh Day of May
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Five Years and an half or thereabouts
and being in Bed in a Two pair of Stairs Room in the Dwelling House of her Father
Richard Simner< no role > situate in [..] cross Street in the Parish and County aforesaid It so
happened That the said Bed then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
took Fire [..] By Means whereof the Face, Breast, Belly, Hands and Arms of
her the said Jane Simner< no role > were then and there mortally scorched and burnt Of which
said Mortal Scorching and Burning she the said Jane Simner< no role > then and there died
[..] from the said Eleventh Day of May in the Year aforesaid untill the seventeenth
Day of the same Month in the same year at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid
did languish and languishing did live. On which said seventeenth Day of May in the Year
aforesaid she the said Jane Simner< no role > at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the
Mortal Scorching and Burning aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say That the said Jane Simner< 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 William Richards< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Wm. Richards [mark] Foreman