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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of March 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 George John Macauley< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of William Chapman< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Zacharia Batterly< no role >
Richard Monday< no role > , Edward Allen< no role > , John Simmonds< no role > , William Hyde< no role > ,
James James< no role > , Patrick Mc. Cowel< no role > , Thomas Ashby< no role > , John Broadford< no role >
Francis Dowling< no role > , William Monford< no role > , and Edward Pilch< 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 George John Macauley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty Seventh day of March
in the Year aforesaid the said George John Macauley< no role > an Infant of the
age of one Year and an half being in the apartment of James Macauley< no role >
his Father situate in Moor's Yard in the said Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid It so happened that the said
George John Macauley< no role > the [..] then and there Accidentally and by
Misfortune fell into a certain Tin Kettle full of boiling Water standing upon
the Floor in the Room a apartment of the said James Macauley< no role > and that the
said George John Macauley < no role > was violently scalded and burnt in and upon the Back
neck and sides of him the said John George Macauley< no role > of which said scalding and burning
he the said John George Macauley< no role > the Infant from the said Twenty seventh day of
March in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty ninth day of the same Month at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and live on which said
twenty ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid he the said George John Macauley< no role > of the scalding
and burning aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said George John Macauley< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and out otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Chapman< 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 Chapman< no role > [mark] Foreman