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 George Hanover Square
Within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter. Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth day of December in the Twenty third
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 Ann Perkins< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
he Oath of Thomas Watts< no role > , Charles Lewis< no role > , Owen Scott< no role > , William
Buckland< no role > , William Dilling< no role > , Alexander Gowens< no role > Robert
Walker< no role > , John Wooden< no role > , Joseph Richardson< no role > Nathan Carrington< no role >
John Cook< no role > and George Hill< 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 Ann Perkins< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Ann Perkins< no role > an Infant
of the Age of two Years and four Months on the Twenty first
day of November in the Year aforesaid being left in the
Room of Thomas Perkins< no role > her Father in the Dwelling House of
Michael Bryant< no role > situate and being in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid and that it so happened that he
Linen Cloaths which the said Ann Perkins< no role > had her Body
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune took Fire, and that the said
ann Perkins< no role > by the Flames and Smoke from the said Fire was very much
Scorched and Burnt in her Body, of which she the said Ann Perkins< no role >
from the said Twenty first day of November in the Year aforesaid
until the Eighth day of December languished and lived and on the said
Eighth day of December did die at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Perkins< 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 Thomas Watts< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Tho. WattsForeman