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 Twenty fourth day December in the twenty fourth
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 Pettiford< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Jeremiah Church< no role > , William Booth< no role > John Mc. Ivoy,
John Holland< no role > , John Oulson< no role > , William Price< no role > , Richard
Carter< no role > , William Burt< no role > , William Whitworth< no role > , Walter
James< no role > , Thomas Gree< no role > , and Charles Carey< 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 Pettiford< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Pettiford an Infant of
the Age of five Years on the fifteenth day of December in the Year
aforesaid being in the Lodging Room of Mary Pettiford< no role > his Mother
in the Dwelling House of Mr. Merrick in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so
happened that the Linnen Cloathes which the said john Pettiford< no role >
then had on his Body Accidentally took fire and that the Belly
Stomach Neck and left Arm of him the said John Pettiford< no role > were
then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune burnt
by the Flames issuing from the Said Fire, of which said Burning
he the said John Pettiford< no role > from the said fifteenth day of December in
the Year aforesaid until the Twenty second day of the same Month at
the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St. Margaret within
the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and live, and there of on
the said Twenty second day of December at the Hospital aforesaid did
die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said John Pettiford in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
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

Jermh Church< no role > [mark] Foreman