MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Rose
inthe Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighth Day of July in the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, 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 Davis< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Henry Aston< no role > , William Covington< no role > , John Mundew< no role > , Christopher Weatley< no role > , William Breley< no role >
Daniel Ward< no role > , John Widnall< no role > John Athard Stibbings, Stephen Harkin< no role > Richard Pople< no role >
Robert Bromley< no role > Joseph White< no role > John Russell< 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 Davis< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Davis< no role > on the fourth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Eighteen Months or thereabouts
accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from a One Pair of Stairs Window in
the House of John Henderson< no role > Scituate at Hatton Wall in the Parish and County aforesaid to
and upon the Stone Pavement thereto By means whereof he the said John Davis< no role > then and there
received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the Head, Body Legs and Arms of
him the said John Davis< no role > . Of which said Mortal Bruises he the said John Davis< no role > then
and there Languished for the Space of Twenty four Hours or [..] and then died
to Wit in the Parish and County aforesaid And so the Jurors [..]
aforesaid Do say That the said John Davis< no role > in Manner an by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Aston< 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

Henry Aston [mark] Foreman