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 third day of November in the Thirteenth
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 Wilkinson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Nicolls< no role > , John Harrison< no role > , John Kane< no role > , Richard Gardiner< no role >
Thomas Gegg< no role > , Michael Rider< no role > , Henry Culley< no role > , Thomas Thomas< no role >
John Deardon< no role > , Samuel Suthernwood< no role > , James Hare< no role > , Mathew Gass< no role > .
William Haslum< no role > , Samuel Stephenson< no role > , and William Hurst< 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 Wilkinson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Mary Wilkinson< no role > being Old and
Infirm, on the Twenty second day of November in the Year aforesaid, was sitting
in her Apartment in the Dwelling House of James Parker< no role > , situate in
Broad Street in the said Parish of Saint James, within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, and having a lighted Candle before her upon the Table
It so happened That Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, the Linen
Cloathes, which she the said Mary Wilkinson< no role > then had on her Body took
fire, by reason whereof, the Breast Neck and Head of her the said Mary
Wilkinson< no role > , were then and there violently and mortaly burnt, of which
said burning she the said Mary Wilkinson< no role > then and there died.

And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Mary Wilkinson< 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
Robert Nicolls< 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 > Coroner
Rot. Nicolls< no role > Foreman