City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit,

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Stephen Jones< no role > in King Street , Parish of St. Margt. Westmr . Sign of the Blue Bears Head
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty second of April 1793 in the thirty third
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 Anthony
Gell< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Maria Wood an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder signed and
Seals affixed
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire of our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Maria Wood< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Maria Wood on the seventeenth day of
April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish & in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit in Gardiner
Lane, at a certain House of there called or known by the Name of the Slap being with an
Infant acts in a Room It so happened that accidentally casually & by Misfortune
the Cloaths of her the said Man a Wood which she had on, took fie, by reason whereof
and from the smoke and Flame arising from the said Fire she the said Maria
Wood was then and there suffocated and burnt of which said suffocation and
Burning she the said Maria Wood on the Eighteenth day of April in the year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Maria Wood in
manner, & by the Means aforesaid accidentally Casually & by Misfortune
came to her death and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said Gums leave to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals
the day Year & place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner }

Thos Taylor< no role >
Coroner
John Taylor< no role >
John Williamson< no role >
Saml Daniel< no role >
Samuel Peters< no role >

Jno Reading< no role >
Jno. Griffin< no role >
Thos Broadhead< no role >
Wm Allen< no role >
Wm Johnson< no role >
John Hodgson< no role >

John Tyerman< no role >