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 thirteenth day of February in the Twenty first 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
Susanna Thompson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Mourn< no role > William Cotterell< no role > , Ralph Jorden< no role > , Samuel
Ray< no role > , John Hodges< no role > , Thomas Gyde< no role > , Peacock Vincey< no role > , Thomas
Scott< no role > , Hugh Kennedy< no role > , Stephen Haines< no role > , Joseph
Tucker< no role > and William Price< 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 Susanna Thompson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Susanna Thompson< no role > on the said thirteenth
day of February in the Year aforesaid being in her Lodging Room or Apartment
in the dwelling House of William Wright< no role > Situate in James Street< no role > in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the Stock
of Chimneys were blown down upon the said House, and that the back part of the said
House then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell in, by
Means whereof the said, Susanna Thompson< no role > was their and there under
the Ruins and Materials thereof smothered suffocated and killed, of
which said Smothering Suffocation and killing she the said Susanna
Thompson< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Susanna Thompson< no role > 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 William Mourn< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Wm. Mourn [mark] Foreman