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 Twenty sixth day of November 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 Michael Cormick< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of William Dawnes< no role > , Thomas Jackson< no role > , Jonathan Waile< no role >
George Ross< no role > , John Read< no role > , William Marrs< no role > , Richard Gibbons< no role > , Joseph
Mucklow< no role > , John Gilks< no role > , John Tatchell< no role > , William Ventres< no role >
and John Wilson< 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 Michael Cormick< no role > came to
his

Death, do upon their Oath say,

That on the Third day of October in the Year aforesaid
the said Michael Cormick< no role > was attending a Copper wherein some Bullocks Liver was
boiling in the Dwelling House of Charles Connellan< no role > situate in Tothill Street in the
Parish Liberty and County aforesaid and then and there standing upon the Top of the said
Copper It so happened that his Feet Slipt and that the said Michael Cormick< no role > fell into
the said Copper by means whereof the said Miclael Cormick< no role > Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune was in the boiling Water in the said Copper scalded and burnt [..]
his legs and part of his Body of which said scalding and bur [..] ing be the said Michael
Cormick at the Westminster Hospital in the said Parish of St. Margaret Westminster
from the Third day of October in the Year aforesaid until the Twenty fifth day of November
in the same Year languished and languishing did live on which said Twenty fifth day
of November at the hospital aforesaid he the said Michael Cormick< no role > of the violent and
Mortal scalding aforesaid did die, And so the Jurors aforesid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Michael Cormick< 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
William Dawnes< 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] Corn.

William Downes< no role > [mark] Foreman