MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the fifth Day of November in the twenty third 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 Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Joseph Handey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Maund< no role > Joseph Phillips< no role > Patrick Carr< no role > Joseph Bayley< no role > Hugh Roberts< no role > Charles
Dugard Joseph Percival< no role > Edward Quarterman< no role > William Rogers< no role > Matthew Coughton< no role >
Joseph Hawes< no role > John Livock< no role > John Metcalf< no role > Samuel Silk< no role > Richard Tibbits< no role >
Benjamin Blake< no role > and John Simmons< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Joseph Handey< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Joseph Handey< no role > on being an Infant
of the Age of Ten years or thereabouts and an Apprentice to John Yates< no role > of
Elbow Lane in the City of London Chimney Sweeper and having gone up the Chimney of
Harris of Chiswell Street in the Parish and County aforesaid Baker in
Order to sweep the Flew of an [..] Oven there It so happened That accidentally casually
and by Misfortune he the said Joseph Handey< no role > was by the Soot and Fifth of
the said Chimney then and there suffocated and smothered Of which said
Suffocation and Smothering he the said Joseph Handey< no role > then and there Died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Joseph Handey< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually
any by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Maund< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Richd Maund [mark] Foreman

No. 8
Napping
On John Maclean< no role >
Found Drowned: