London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Catherine Cree in the ward of Aldgate in London
aforesaid on the fourth day of November in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the thirdthe thirdKing 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 Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
William Dobbins< no role > , George Shuter< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , Joseph Browning< no role > Robert Holland< no role >
John Gresham< no role > , Joseph Baguley< no role > , John Halsey< no role > , Thomas Huntley< no role > , William Broad< no role > , John Haycroft,
Samuel Burton< no role > , Henry Looker< no role > , Richard Tucker< no role > , Benjamin Rankin< no role > , Birkehead Hitchcook< no role >
William Hudson< no role > & John Jackson< 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 Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > came to her death
say upon their oath that the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > an infant about the age of three
years on the thirty first day of October in the year aforesaid being in a certain room
in the dwelling house of James Gibbs< no role > there situate wherein was a fire It so happened
that the Cloaths which the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > then had on her person accidentally casually
and by misfortune caught fire by means whereof the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > was
then and there mortally burned in and upon the left side of her body of which
said mortal burning she the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > from the said thirty first day
of October in the year aforesaid until the third day of November in the same year
at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and languishing
did two and on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in
London aforesaid she the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > of the said mortal burning did die-And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Gibbs< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
came to her death and not otherwise-In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Dobbins< 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 above written

Wm Dobbins< no role > [mark]