City of 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 nineteenth day of March in the thirty second
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 Charles Lucas< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Cuttell< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > , Thomas Goldsmith< no role >
John Cutell< no role > Junr , William Thomas< no role > , John Blake< no role > , Thomas
Underwood< no role > , Thomas Nichols< no role > , William Dawson< no role > , Thomas Palmer< no role > , Joseph
Hobbs< no role > , John Garden< no role > and John Hudson< 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 Charles Lucas< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Charles Lucas< no role > an Infant
of the age of two Years and upwards, being alone in the apartment of
William Lucas< no role > the Father in the dwelling house of Thomas Nichols< no role > , Situate
in Blue Cross Street in the said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields , within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of [..]
year aforesaid, it so happend that the Muslin Frock [..]
Charles Lucas< no role > the Infant had on his Body, accidentally [..] that
the Body of the said Charles Lucas< no role > then and there accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune was violently scorched and burnt, of which said
burning he the said Charles Lucas< no role > then and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Charles
Lucas< no role > accidentally casually and by Misfortune, in manner and
by he Means aforesaid, came to his death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Cuttell< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on 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 .

John Cuttell< no role > [mark] Foreman