City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Intended taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. John the Evangelist in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dea [..]
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Twenty fourth day of August in the Fourth 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 Sarah Flood< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the
Oath of John Quainton< no role > , James Taylor< no role > , Richard Robinson< no role > , Edward Williams< no role > , James
Gardener< no role > Jonathan Davies< no role > , William Stores< no role > , John Lowry< no role > , John Tarran< no role > , William Mumbury< no role >
Thomas Carder< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Robert Anderson< no role > , William Haywood< no role > , Thomas Stanley< no role > and John Edwards< 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
Sarah Flood< no role > came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah Flood< no role >
being a Lodger in an old ruinated House, situate in Sturton Ground in the Parish
aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that about
Eleven of the Clock in the Evening of the Twenty third day of August in the year aforesaid
the back part of the said old decayed House, in which the said Sarah Flood< no role > was then and there
lodged, Accidentally, Casually and by Misfortune, Sunk and fell down,
by Means whereof the said Sarah Flood< no role > was then and there under the Ruins and
Materials thereof, smothered, suffocated and killed, of which said Smothering
Suffocation and Killing, she the said Sarah Flood< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Sarah Flood< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally casually and Misfortune came to her Death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John
Quainton< no role > 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
Year and Place first abovewritten

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
John [mark] Quainton< no role >
Foreman