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 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 Ninth day of January in the Eighth 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
Bernard Campble< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Bishop< no role > , Miles Rawlinson< no role > , Robert Webb< no role > , Thomas Cross< no role > , Joseph Cantrell< no role > ,
Thomas Baynes< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > , William Wilkes< no role > , James Evans< no role > , Charles Smith< no role > ,
John Cann< no role > , Richard Fletcher< no role > Richard Edwards< no role > , James Johnson< no role > William Jones< no role > ,
Henry Whitefoot< no role > and Richard Shute< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Bernard Campble< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Bernard Campble< no role > an Infant of the
Age of four Years, on the Eighth day of January in the Year aforesaid, being alone
in a certain Room or Apartment in the dwelling House of James Scole< no role > situate
in Down Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid;
It so happened that the Linnen Clothes which the said Bernard Campble the
Infant then and there had on his Body, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
took Fire, by reason where of, and by the Flame arising from the said Fire, the
Belly, Stomach, Arms and Head of him the said Bernard Campble< no role > were then
and there greatly scorched and burnt, of which said Burning he the said
Bernard Campble< no role > languished about two hours at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and there on the same day did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Bernard Campble< no role > , in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually also by Misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness where of as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Bishop< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner