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 Second day of July in the Eleventh 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
Elizabeth Mc. Daniel< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Edwards< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Edwards Dunn< no role > , Thomas Evans< no role > , Thomas Gale< no role > ,
Christopher Kay< no role > , John Reid< no role > , Richard Collin< no role > , John Roberts< no role > , John Cullen< no role >
Thomas Bathurst< no role > , William Simpson< no role > , Samuel Norgrave< no role > , Thomas
Steel< no role > and John Crouch< 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 Elizabeth Mc. Daniel came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Mc. Daniel the Infant on
the First day of July in the Year aforesaid, being in the Lodging Room or
Apartment of Francis Mc. Daniel< no role > her Father, in the dwelling House of Thomas
Bathurst< no role > , situate in Lucas's Court in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there reaching through one of
the Windows in the said Room to a certain Line for drying of Linnen on the
outside thereof, It so happened that the said Elizabeth Mc. Daniel then and there
Accidently Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and through the said
Window, being of the height if two Stories, unto and upon the Stone Pavement
in the said Court, and thereby did then and there receive one mortal Contusion
in and upon the back part of her Head, of which said mortal Contusion
she the said Elizabeth Mc. Daniel then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Mc. Daniel
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 John Edwards< 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 > Coroner

John Edwards< no role > Foreman