City & Liberty of
Westmr in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Eighteenth day of July
1771 at the Parish of St Clement Danes within the Liberty
of Westmr . in the County of Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the Death of Jane Hearson< no role > an Infant lying dead
in the said Parish Liberty and County.

Elizabeth< no role > the Wife of George Anderson< no role > , a Lodger at
Mr. John Morse< no role > in Stanhope Street in the Parish of St.
Clement Danes on her Oath Saith, That Jane Hearson< no role > the
Deced an Infant of the Age of about four years lived with
her Father Thos. Hearson< no role > who is a Lodger on the Second
Floor in the Foreroom, the Dept. Room being on the
third Floor over Mr, Veorion, Says that She was in her
own Room yesterday (July 17th) between five & Six o'Clock
when She heard something fall down upon the Iron
Rails in the Street before the House, and on looking
out thro' her window she saw a Milkman pricking
up the Deced off the Ground, and crying out, Ales
who is the Mother of the Child, upon which Dept. [..]
down immediately and saw the Deced bleed very [..]
from a Wound on the leftside of her Head, she being
Speechless and unable to move, Says that a Surgeon
bled the Deced, but the Deced never come to her
Senses and died about Seven o'Clock the some Evening
Says that the Deced fell out of and thro' one of the
Windows in her Father's Room (as Dept. believes) into
the Street, and thereby reced the Wound abovementioned, which was
the cause of Deced's death as Deponent believes.

Elisrt Andrson< no role >

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}