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 August 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 Elizabeth Hooper< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Caunt< no role > , John Baynes< no role > , Abraham Luxton< no role > ,
Francis Redley< no role > , Samuel Hammond< no role > , Anthony Shepard< no role > , Edward
Burrows< no role > , John Westwood< no role > , James Hall< no role > , James Heggs< no role > , Thomas Chowns< no role > ,
William Obbard< no role > , Joseph Bacon< no role > , William Courridge< no role > , James Randell< no role > ,
and Timothy Benett< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > , the
Infant, to Wit, of the Age of one Year and three Months on the fifth
day of August in the Year aforesaid, being in a Cradle in the Lodging
Room or Apartment of Thomas Hooper< no role > her Father in the Dwelling
House of James Higgs< no role > situate in Crown Street in the Parish aforesaid,
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the
Linen Cloaths in the said Cradle Accidentally took Fire, and that
the said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > the Infant then and there Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune, was violently Burntin and upon her
Back, Sides, Arms and Thighs, of which said Burning She the
said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > form the said fifth day of August in
the Year aforesaid, until the sixth days of the same Month, and
Year, did languish and languishing did live, on which said sixth
day of August she the said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > , at the Parish and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, of the Burning aforesaid did
die. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,
that the said Elizabeth Hooper< no role > the Infant, Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, came
to her Death.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said John Caunt< no role > Foreman at the said Jurors
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellow in their
Presence have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and Place abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Caunt [mark] Foreman