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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of May 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 Elizabeth Davis< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Hewson< no role > , John West< no role > , John Ball< no role > ,
Joseph Mousey< no role > , Edward Wild< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Robert
Vardey< no role > , John Smith< no role > . Thomas Hall< no role > , Patrick Carr< no role > ,
Thomas Bilson< no role > and James Walters< 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 Elizabeth Davis< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Elizabeth Davies< no role > an
Infant of the Age of two Years on the Twenty ninth day of
May in the Year aforesaid being in the Lodging Room of
Richard Davies< no role > her Father, on the First Floor in the Dwelling
House of Joseph Mousey situate in New Street in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And
then and there Sitting in one of the Windows in the said Room
and the Sash being up, It so happened that the said Elizabeth
Davies< no role > the Infant Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell out of and through the said Window into and upon
the Stone Pavement in the said Street, and thereby then and
there received one Mortal Fracture in and upon the back
part of her Head, of which said mortal Fracture she the
said Elizabeth Davies< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Elizabeth Davies< no role > Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune in Manner and by the Means aforesaid came to her
Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said James Hewson< 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
T Hewson [mark] Foreman