London
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T Shelton Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish
of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforeward on the tenth day of January in the twenty ninth 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 Etc.
before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of outside Lord the King for the City of London Borough of Southwark on view of the body of
Charles Ward< no role > an infant now here lying dead by the oath of William Plaskett< no role > John Blackett< no role > William Morss< no role > , William Brownjohn< no role > ,
Alpha Monk< no role > George Burnett< no role > Thomas Faith, James Osborn< no role > , Henry Madgin< no role > , William Frael, Samuel Elmley< no role > , William Sharratt and
Thomas Gill< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Charles Ward< no role > came to his death say upon their oath at the said Charles Ward< no role > on the
ninth day of January in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being in a certain Ronn in the Dwelling house
of one William Plaskett< no role > there situate and being then and there near the fire place in the said room it so happened that the said Cloathes and
Garments of the said Charles Ward< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune did then and there catch fire and were consumed and the
said Charles Ward< no role > from the flames arising form the said fire was then and there mortally burned Of which said burning he the said
Charles Ward< no role > on the day and year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid, to wit, at the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew there
situate did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Charles Ward< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was burned and killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
William Plaskett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Follow in their presence have to this Inquisition set
their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Wm. Plaskett< no role > [mark] foreman