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 Ann
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the Country of Middlesex , the Twenty Second day of April in the Twenty sixth
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 Harriot Tawkner an Insant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Elias Peter Petit< no role > , James Wood< no role > , James Hillear< no role > , William
Vokins< no role > , Gilliper Walsh< no role > , James Barber< no role > , William Milborn< no role > ,
Thomas Tine< no role > , Benjamin Allin< no role > Henry Ferneaux < no role > William Armitage< no role >
James Newman< no role > ,Thomas Whaler< no role > , James Smart< no role > , James Paull< no role > , Richard Philips< no role >
Joseph Johnson< no role > , Joseph Barber< no role > , Hugh Sutherland< no role > and James Blanch< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who, being then and there duly Sworn and charged to enguire for our said Lord the
King,when,how.and by what means the said Harriot Fawkner< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Harriot Fawkner an Infant of the
Age of eight Years, on the eighteenth day of April in the year aforesaid, being at
Play with her Brother Samuel Fawkner< no role > an Infant of the Age of twelve years in
the Dwelling House of Samuel Fawkner< no role > their Father situate in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and Country aforesaid, And the said Samuel Fawkner the
Infant having a gun in his Hands which Accidentally went off(the said
Samuel Fawkner that Infant not knowing [..] said Gun had been
charged) And that the said Harriot Fawkner the Infant did then and
there by the House of the Gun powder and the shot with which the said
Gun was charged unknown to the said Samuel Tawkner, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune received one Mortal Wound and Fracture in and
upon the left Arm of her the said Harriot Fawkner of which said Wound and
Fracture, she the said Harriot Fawkner from the said Eighteenth day
of April in the Year aforesaid, untill the twenty forth day of the same Month
and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and Country aforesaid, did languish and
live, on which said twenty fourth day of April in the Year aforesaid, She the
said Harriot Fawkner the Infant at the said Parish of Mr. Ann of the
Mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid, did die; And so the Jurors aforeasaid,
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said Harriot Fawkner, in manner and
by the means aforesaid, Accidentally Casually by misfortune came to her Death
In Witness whereof as well the said coroner as the said Elias Peter< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their
Presence have to this Inquisition wet their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

E P Petit [mark] Foreman