MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the [..]
[..] in theParish of Saint Giles in the Fields in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of July 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
James Long< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Mr. William Later< no role > , Edward Lloyd< no role > George Portland< no role > , William Merchant< no role > Alexander Clark< no role >
William Hanson< no role > Charles Harriss< no role > John Neal< no role > George Maggott< no role > William Terrell< no role > , James Recoe
William Hall< no role > John Evans< no role > William Spencer< no role > Edward Surner< no role > William Garners Daniel
Adkings< no role > , John Swift< no role > and Richard Beckett< 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 James Long< no role > came to his
Death, do upon their Oath, say, That the said James Long< no role > on the Sixteenth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being a Fireman belonging to the New Office in Lombard
Street and being assisting at a Fire which was then burning in the House of
Stockdale situated in the Parish and County aforesaid. It so happened that a
Stach of Chinmes then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell upon
the said James Long< no role > By means whereof he the said James Long< no role > then and there
received divers mortal Bruises in and upon the Head Body Legs and Thighs of him
the said James Long< no role > of which said mortal Bruises he the said James Long< no role > then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
James Long< 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 William Cater< 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
William Cater< no role > [mark] Foreman