Middlesex
to wit.
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The
Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell
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
Ann Dunn< no role >
an Infant then and there lying dead
upon the Oath of
James Richardson< no role >
,
Richard Myers< no role >
,
Robert Hall< no role >
,
James Key< no role >
William Johnson< no role >
,
George Child< no role >
, James Mr Kay,
William Mitchell< no role >
,
William Hill< no role >
John Sibbett< no role >
,
John Asbury< no role >
,
John Crutcher< no role >
and
Samuel Buckley< no role >
good and lawfull
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 or by what Means the
said
Ann Dunn< no role >
came to her Death Do upon their Oath say That the said Ann
Dunn
[..] on the Sixteenth Day of May
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of three Years and an half or
thereabouts and being in a Room up Two Pair of Stairs in the House of Thomas
Mitford situate in a Place called Wapping Wall
in the Parish and County
aforesaid in which a Fire was then burning It so happened That the
Cotton Frock and Camblet Skirt which she the said
Ann Dunn< no role >
then and there
had on and were accidentally, casually and by Misfortune took Fire. By means
whereof the Face, Body, Thighs, Hands and Arms of her the said
Ann Dunn< no role >
were then and there mortally scorched and burnt. Of which said Mortal Scorching
and Burning she the said
Ann Dunn< no role >
from the said sixteenth 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
Ann Dunn< 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
Ann Dunn< 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 James Richardson< 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 abovewritten
Thos. Phillips< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
James Richardson< no role >
[mark] Foreman