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. George Hanover Square , within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of February in the Third
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 > Gentleman, Coroner of our
said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Katherine Fortescue< no role > an Infant
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Corne< no role > , Nicholas Welch< no role > , Peter Taylor< no role > ,
John Keats< no role > , Thomas Hedges< no role > , Michael Player< no role > , Alexander Smith< no role > , John Ladyman< no role >
Robert Page< no role > , William Clare< no role > , Gerard Van der Gucht< no role > , and James Sedgwick< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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 Katherine
Fortescue< no role > , came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the twenty fourth day of February
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, the said
Katherine Fortescue the Infant being with other Children gathering and Picking up sticks
by the River side in a certain Place called Abery Farm near unto Chelsea Bridge , in the said
Parish Liberty and County, it so happened that the said Katherine Fortescue then and
there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and in the Waters
thereof was then and there Drowned and Suffocated, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
she the said Katherine Fortescue< no role > [..] and there Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Katherine Fortescue< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, Accidentally, Casually, and by Misfortune came to her Death, and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Corne< no role > ,
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
Presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jno Corns< no role > [mark] Foreman