City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Twenty fourth
day of December 1783 at the Parish of
St. Margaret within the Liberty of Westmr
in the County of Middlesex upon an
Inquisition touching the Death of John
Pettiford< no role > an Infant lying dead in the
said Parish Liberty and County.

Mary Pettiford< no role > Widow a Lodger at Mr. Merrick
in North Alley in the Parish of St. Martin in
the Fields on her Oath saith, That on Monday
the Fifteenth Instant Dept. went out to Work
at Mr. Saunders in Buckingham Street York
Buildings about two o'Clock in the Morning,
Says that she returning home about Nine
o'Clock and gave her Children some Bread
and went away again before Ten to her
work leaving the Deced Aged almost five
Years, a Sister Aged about Seven & another
Sister Aged about three Years in the
Room together, a small Fire having been
alghted in the Room Says that about half
hour after Ten,Dept.Deced's eldest Sister came to
Dept. and informed her that her Brother
was Burnt upon which Dept. went home
and found Mrs. Crane another Lodger rubbing
the Deced with Oil, he being very much
burnt upon the Belly Stomach Neck and
left Arm, Says that she carried the Deced
to the Westmr. Hospital in the Parish of St.-
Margaret Westmr. where Dept. often saw the
Deced, and where the Deced died on the
twenty second Istant, and Dept. believes that
the Deced was Accidentally burnt, and that it
caused his Death.

Mary Pettiford< no role >
[mark]
her Mark

Sworn the Day Year and
Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }