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 Fifth day of February 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 John Victualler< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Patterson< no role > , Walter James< no role > , Henry Holt< no role > , Edward
George< no role > , John Leech< no role > , Samuel Ray< no role > , Matthew Hill< no role > , John
Smith< no role > , Charles Kither< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , William Medlam< no role > ,
and John Thompson< 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 John Victualler came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Victualler on the
Twenty seventh day of January in the Year aforesaid being at
Work in the Powder Mills upon Hounslow Heath in the County.
aforesaid, and that the Powder in one of the said Mills, wherein
the said John Victualler, then worked, Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune took Fire and went off, whereby the said John
Victualler was violent burnt in his Legs, Higher, Face and
part of his Body, of which said Burning he the said John
Victualler at the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty
and County aforesaid from the said Twenty Seventh day of January
in the year aforesaid until the fourth day of February in the same
Year did languish and languishing did live, on which said
fourth day of February, at the said Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, he the said John Victualler of the
mortal Burning aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Victualler
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid came to her death and not otherwise
In Witness whereby as well the said Coroner as the said John
Patterson< 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 .
John Paterson< no role > [mark] Foreman