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 fourteenth day of April in the Nineteenth 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
Sarah Wells< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Simpson< no role > , Thomas Greenwood< no role > , Frederick Franklin< no role > , Hugh Payne< no role > John Moore< no role >
John Prichard< no role > , William Bevis< no role > Walter Cross< no role > , William Ambler< no role > , Joseph Woodhead< no role >
John Beales< no role > Joseph Wassell< no role > & George Nesbit< 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 Sarah Wells< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Sarah Wells< no role > an Infant of
the Age of Nine Years on the Thirteenth day of April in the Year
aforesaid being alone in the Room or Apartment of John Wells< no role >
her Father, situate in Cork Cutter's Alley in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and
there standing before the Fire, it so happened that the Lineen
Cloaths which she the said Sarah Wells< no role > had on her Body Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune took fire, by Reason whereof
and from the Smoke and Flame arising from the said Fire
she the said Sarah Wells< no role > was then and there suffocated and
Burnt, of which said Suffocation and Burning she the said
Sarah Wells< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Wells< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Causally
and by Misfortune came to her death and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Thomas Simpson< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. SimpsonForeman