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 Margaret in the City of Westminster within 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 January in the Sixth 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 soforth 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 Ann Fitsall< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Andrew Rogers< no role > , Thomas Lawyer< no role > Leonard Robinson< no role > , John Bunts< no role > , James White< no role > , Alexander
Donald< no role > James Blundell< no role > , William Crockett< no role > , John Burgess< no role > , Samuel Everingham< no role >
John Wood< no role > , Richard Taylor< no role > , Clandius Smith< no role > , Francis Russell< no role > and William Pepper< 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 Ann Fitsall
came to her Death. do upon their Oath say. That the said Ann Fitsall being very old, and weak and
infirm in Body, on the Twenty fifth day of January in the year aforesaid, being alone in
her Room or Apartment in Emanuel Hospital (commonly called Lady Dacres Almshouses)
situate in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, and then
and there sitting in a Chair by her Fire side, It so happened that the Apron, Petticoat and
other Cloaths of the said Ann Fitsall, which she the said, Ann Fitsall then and there had
on her Body, Accidentally casually and by Misfortune took fire, by Reason whereof and
from the smoke and flame arising from the said Fire, she [..] Ann Fitsall [..]
then and there suffocated and Burnt of which said Suffocation and Burning she the said
Ann Fitsall then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid,
do say, that the said Ann Fitsall, 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 Andrew Rogers< 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 Richard< no role > Coroner .
Andw Rogers< no role > Foreman