City of 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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of February in the twenty fifth
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 Mary Morris< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Potier< no role > , Thomas Knight< no role > , Samuel Scott< no role > , John
Doldson< no role > , Thomas Glossop< no role > , John Sell< no role > , Robert Lowe< no role > ,
William Cook< no role > , Jacob Welsh< no role > , James Delagrange< no role > , Thomas
Crown< no role > Abraham Reynolds< no role > , Peter Granor < no role > and
William Farmer< 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 Mary Morris< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Morris< no role > an
Infant of the Age of four Years on the nineteenth day
of February in the Year aforesaid being alone in the Lodging
-room or Apartment of Mary Morris< no role > her Mother in the
Dwelling House of Elizabeth Barrat< no role > in Greek Street in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
It so happened that the Linen Cloths which the said Mary Morris< no role >
then and there had on her Body Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune took Fire, whereby the said Mary Morris< no role > the Infant
was Burned in and upon her Arms Neck and Sides, of which she
languished until the Twentieth day of February in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then
and there of the Burning aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Mary Morris< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to her death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
William Potier< 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 abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Wm. Potier< no role > [mark] Foreman