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 Thirtieth day of August 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 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
Jane Hay< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Timothy
Cahill< no role > , William Lowdy< no role > , George Whyley< no role > , John Webber< no role > , David Rees< no role > , John
Cooper< no role > , William Spinney< no role > , Robert Perryman< no role > , William Woodhall< no role > John Dyer< no role >
Thomas Spencer< no role > and John Chewter< 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 Jane Hay came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Jane Hay the Infant on the
Third day of August in the Year aforesaid being alone at Play on the inside
of the Stair case Window in the dwelling House of Joseph Halsey< no role > Situate in
Jeffreys's Buildings in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and
County aforesaid, And the Lower Sash of the Said Window having been put
up, It so happened that the said Jane Hay the Infant Accidentally casually
and by Misfortune fell and of and thro' the said Window (being two Stories high)
into the said Buildings, and by Means thereof did then and there receive one
mortal Wound upon the back part of the Head, and a violent Concussion in and
upon the Brain, of her the said Jane Hay, of which said mortal Wound and
Concussion she the said Jane Hay from the said Third day of August in the Year
aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the same Month in the same Year at the
Parish and in the City Liberty and County aforesaid did Languish and Languishing
did live, on which said Twenty ninth day of August in the Year aforesaid she
the said Jane Hay at the said Parish of St. Margaret of the Mortal Wound
and Concussion aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Jane Hay Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune, in manner and by the means aforesaid, Came to her Death and
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Timothy Cahill< 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 .
Timothy Cahill< no role >
Foreman