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
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth day of June in the Thirteenth 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 > , Gentlemen,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Susanna Aris< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Gardner< no role > ,
Richard Lane< no role > , Robert Goldin< no role > , Thomas Branch< no role > , Robert Lane< no role > , William Ewers< no role > , Joseph
Barwell< no role > , John Jackson< no role > , Joseph Dansforth< no role > , John Hales< no role > , George Bartlett< no role > .
Thomas Page< no role > and Richard Cattle< 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 ny what Means the said Susanna Aris came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Susanna Aris the Infant, to wit,
of the Age of five years, on the First day of June in the year aforesaid
being alone in a certain Gallery in the Stable Yard belonging to the White
Horse situate in the Broad Way in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the Door in the said Gallery (where the Hay is
usually taken in) being then open, It so happened that the said Susanna
Aris then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of the
said Gallery upon the Stone Pavement in the said Stable Yard, and thereby
then and there received one mortal Fracture in and upon the back part of
her Head, of which said mortal Fracture she the said Susanna Aris
from the said First day of June in the year aforesaid, until the Sixteenth
day of the [..] Month and Year at the Parish and [..]
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said
Sixteenth day of June aforesaid, she the said Susanna Aris at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Susanna Aris 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 Gardner< 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 Gardner< no role > Foreman