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 Seventh day of September 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 ing for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Thomas Pigg< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Mason< no role > , James Baker< no role > , Samuel Mitchell< no role > , Anthony Febery< no role >
Thomas Scott< no role > , William Booth< no role > , Thomas Glew< no role > , Matthew Hill< no role > , William Teague< no role >
John Patterson< no role > , John Vaughan< no role > , John Oulson< no role > , James Brotherton< no role > , and William
Woods< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chose, 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 Thomas Pigg< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their oath say That the said Thomas Pigg< no role > an Infant of the
Age of Thirteen Months being in Room or Apartment of its Father and
Mother in Horse shoe Alley Petty France in the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty
and County aforesaid on the Fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid and being
near to the Fire Place, and a Saucepan being on the [..] which was French
Beans and Boiling Water, it to happened that accidentally casually and by
Misfortune while the Mother moved from the Fire Place to a Cupboard in the
Room and the Father being Asleep on the Bed the said Child touching the handle
of the Saucepon or other part thereof or other Accident the said Saucepon fall
from off the said Time and the Boiling Water contained therein fell on the Breast
and Stomach of the said Childwhich [..] means whereof
the said Child languished and languishing ord Line untill the Sixth day of September being the next
Day and then Conculsions being brought on in consequence thereof Died And so the Jurors aforesaid in their Oath aforesaid do lay that the said Thomas
Pigg< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his
Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the
Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

James Masson< no role > [mark] Foreman