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 Seventeenth day of August 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 Jane Walter< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of David Christopher< no role > , John Colegate< no role > , William Whitty< no role > , Thomas
Williams< no role > , Thomas Griffith< no role > , John Gossart< no role > , John Havers< no role > , John olivier< no role >
James Macklin< no role > , Joseph Seward< no role > , Peter Charman< no role > , Andrew Laurie< no role > , Joseph
Wilson< no role > , Joseph Turney< no role > & Thomas Godfrey< 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 Jane Walker< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Walter< no role > an Infant
of the age of about Two Years being in the Kitchen in the Dwelling
House of William Moore< no role > situate in Duke Street in the said Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid and
there being a saucepan full of boiling Water upon the FireIt so
happened that the said Jane Walter< no role > the Infant pulled down the said
Saucepan and that the boiling Water therein Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell upon the Neck of the said Jane Walter< no role > , and that the
neck back sides and other parts of the Body of her the said Jane Walter< no role >
were then and there scalded and burnt of which said Scalding and
burning she the said Jane Walter< no role > the Infant from the said Fifteenth day of
August in the Year aforesaid until the Sixteenth day of the same mouth
and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live on which said Sixteenth day of August in the year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid she the said
Jane Walter< no role > the Infant of the mortal burning aforesaid did die, And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Jane Walter< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to her Death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said David briehton 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

David Crishton< no role > Foreman