Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the
twenty fourth day of October in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of
Southwark on view of the body of Ann Arthur< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
William Mackie< no role > , John Leary< no role > , Richard Friend< no role > , Luke Cannon< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Joshua
Russell,< no role > William Skinner< no role > , William Jagg< no role > , Thomas Crooks< no role > , Thomas Graham< no role > , John Lee< no role > ,
William Howard< no role > , William Dolby< no role > , and Decimus Hayward< no role > , good and lawful men
of the Borough of Southwark 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 Ann Arthur< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann
Arthur on the nineteenth day of October in the year aforesaid being in a certain room
in the dwelling house of Henry Arthur< no role > Situate in the parish of Saint George the Martyr
within the Borough and County aforesaid wherein was a fire It so happened that
the Cloaths which the said Ann Arthur< no role > then had on her person accidentally casually
and by misfortune caught fire by means whereof the said Ann Arthur< no role > was then and
there mortally burned in and upon he ears neck and Swasts of which said
mortal burning she the said Ann Arthur< no role > from the said nineteenth day of October
in the year aforesaid until the twenty first day of the same Month of October in the
same year as well at the said Saint George the Martyr as also at the abovementioned
parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough and County aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live and on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish last
aforesaid within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid the said
Ann Arthur< no role > of the said mortal burning did die [..] so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Arthur< 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 Mackie< no role > the 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 first
abovewritten

William Mackie< no role > [mark] Foreman