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 James
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 January in the Ninth 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 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
John Dickson Carey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George
Smith< no role > , Nicholas Philipson< no role > , William York< no role > , Samuel Barnes< no role > , Samuel
Chapman< no role > , William Wilkinson< no role > , William Gilchrist< no role > , Sampson Wootten< no role > , George
Kelly< no role > , James Fenney< no role > , William Frisby< no role > , Richard Ashby< no role > , William Mumbym< no role >
James Nicholson< no role > and Tristram Fletcher< 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 John Dickson Carey came to
hisDeath, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Dickson Carey an Infant,
to Wit, of the Age of Five Years, on the Twenty fourth day of January in the
year aforesaid being alone, near the Fireside, in a certain room on the
second Floor in the Dwelling House of Richard Dickson< no role > situate in Shug Lane in
the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the Clothes
which the said John Dickson Carey then and there had on his Body Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune took Fire, by reason whereof, and by the Flame arising from the said
Fire, the Face Arms and Stomach of him the said John Dickson Carey were then and
there greatly searched and Burnt, of which said Burning he the said John Dickson
Carey then and there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
[..] to say that the saw [..] by Misfortune in
manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his Death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said George Smith< 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

George Smith< no role > [mark] Foreman