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 Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty-
Seventh day of March in the 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said
City and Liberty, On View of the Body of Thomas Chidley< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon
the Oath of William Ashew< no role > , Thomas Whiteland< no role > , James Winks< no role > , William Buxton< no role >
James Smith< no role > , Edward Chandler< no role > , Henry Haynes< no role > , Daniel Wood< no role > , Jacob
Fletcher< no role > , James Pickanell< no role > , William Cordray< no role > , and Clement Bullin< 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 Thomas Chidley< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That
on the Twenty fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid, the said Thomas Chidley< no role > a Chimneysweeper being
sweeping the Funnel or Flue of a certain Oven in the Possession of Thomas Smith< no role > a Baker situate
in Peter Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, [..]
and there returning backwards with the Soot which he the said Thomas [..] sley had swept in the said Funnel
It so happened that the Leather Jacket which he the said Thomas Chidley< no role > that [..] and there had on, Accidentally
Casually, and by Misfortune, Rolled up around the Body under the Arms of the said Thomas Chidley< no role > , by
Reason where of the said Thomas Chidley< no role > stuck fast in the said Funnel or Flue, and was then and there
Suffocated and Smothered, of which said Suffocation and Smothering he the said Thomas Chidley< no role > then
and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths aforesaid, do say, that the said
Thomas Chidley< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidently casually, and by Misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
William Askew< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

William Askew< no role > Foreman