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 first day of December in the Thirty first
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 Joseph Harrison< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Wainford Bull< no role > , Thomas Kelly< no role > , James Young< no role > , Thomas Allison< no role >
Joseph Narkell< no role > , Patrick Cating< no role > , Thomas Davis< no role > , James Adnum< no role >
Joseph Grice< no role > , William Wright< no role > , Gilbert Myers< no role > , William Thompson< no role >
and Robert Fellers< 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 Joseph Harrison< no role > the Infant came to
his Death do upon their Oath say That in the Eighteenth day of December in the Year
aforesaid, the said Joseph Harrison< no role > an Infant of the Age of Three Years and upwards
was left with another Infant in the Lodging Room of Mary Harrison< no role > his Mother
situate in the Dwelling House of Thomas Kelly< no role > in Swallow Street in the said Parish
of Saint James within the Liberty and County aforesaid and that the Linnen Cloaths which
the said Joseph Harrison< no role > the Infant then and there had on his Body accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune took fire. and that the said Joseph Harrison< no role > was then and there burnt
in and upon his Stomach, Neck, Head and left Arm, of which said burning he the said
Joseph Harrison< no role > from the said Eighteenth day of December in the Year aforesaid until
the Nineteenth day of same Month at the said Parish of St. James within the Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said Nineteenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid he the said Joseph Harrison< no role > of the burning aforesaid did die, And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Joseph Harrison< 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 said Wainford Bull 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

Wainford Bull [mark] Foreman