City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter at Westminster , the twentieth day of April , in the Second 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 Prickard< no role > Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty
on View of the Body of Jeremiah Flarty< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of James Christmas< no role >
Francis Gowen< no role > , William Andrews< no role > , James Head< no role > , Richard Maddy< no role > , Henry Carpenter< no role > Richard Bolt< no role > , William Draycott< no role > John Allison< no role >
Jacob Hodybird< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , William Pall< no role > , Edward Recoyle< no role > , Andrew Stewart< no role > , Samuel Stewart< no role > , and George Methuen< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty 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 Jeremiah Flarty
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Seventeenth day of April in the Year aforesaid the
said Jeremiah Flarty, (an Infant about the Age of four Years) was playing in a certain Privy or necessary
House erected in a certain place situate in the Parish and Liberty aforesaid, called Pipe-maker's Alley, for
the use of the Inhabitants of the same Alley, And that it so happened that the said Jeremiah Flarty then
and there accidentally casually and by misfortune fell thro' the Hole of the Conveniency erected in the
same Privy or necessary House for Children, into the Ordure Dung and Fifth lying under the same
Privy or Necessary House, and was therein accidentally casually and by misfortune Suffocated and
Smothered, of which Suffocation and Smothering the said Jeremiah Flarty then and there instantly dyed
In Witness whereof as well the said [..] ner, as the said James Christmas< no role > foreman, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Jas. Christmas< no role > Foreman