City of Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
middlesex
}
to Wit.
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the House of
James Gaunt< no role >
Sign of the two Brewers
in Carington place lane Parish of Saint George within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the fifth day of August 1794 in the thirty fourth
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
Ann Day< no role >
an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written
and Seals affixed
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
Ann Day< no role >
came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said
Ann Day< no role >
on the fourth day of August
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid being in
her Mother's Apartment scituate in Carington Place
aforesaid, It so happened
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune, the Cloaths which she the said
Ann Day< no role >
then and there had on her Body accidentally, casually & by Misfortune
took Fire, by Reason whereof and from the Smoke and Flame arising
from the said Fire she the said
Ann Day< no role >
was then and there suffocated
and burnt: Of which said Suffocation and Burning she the said
Ann Day< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Ann Day< no role >
in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally casually and
by Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise.
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner
,
as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place first above written.
Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner
}
James Gaunt< no role >
Foreman
Tho Britain< no role >
Thos. Dixon< no role >
Ger. Linnell< no role >
Wm Fenn< no role >
Geor. Hamnett< no role >
Benjn. Hall< no role >
Joseph Lloyd< no role >
[..]
Ricd. Welferd< no role >
Thos Byrne< no role >
Thomas Medley< no role >
Wm Coward< no role >