Middlesex
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Mary Le Bone
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth Day of December in the 23d 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroner s of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Elizabeth Hudson< no role > an Infant
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Christopher Chapman< no role >
Christopher Cox< no role > , William Manley< no role > , Edward Harben< no role > , Thomas B [..] son, Henry
Wallington, William Farr< no role > , William Brown< no role > , William Andrews< no role > , Edward
Age Stephen Quick< no role > and Edward Langley< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and 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. Elizabeth Hudson< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Hudson< no role >
on the Fifteenth Day of December in the year aforesaid being an Infant of
the Age of Five years or thereabouts and being Left in the Lodging Room or
Apartment of her MotherHudson situate in the Parish and County
aforesaid where there was a Fire then burning It so happened That the
Cloaths which the said Elizabeth Hudson< no role > had on and wore then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune catch'd Fire By means whereof she
the said Elizabeth (Hudson< no role > was then and there mortally search'd and burnt of which
said Mortal Scorching and burning she the said Elizabeth Hudson< no role > from the said Fifteenth Day.
of December in the year aforesaid untill the seventeenth Day of the same Month in the same year
at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did Languish and then died to wit at the Parish aforesaid
in the County aforesaid And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Elizabeth Hudson< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune Came to her Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Christopher Chapman< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E: UmfrevilleCoronr.

Christ. ChapmanForeman