MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Christ Church in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty third Day of November in the twenty sixth 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
William Curry< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Curnock< no role > Joseph Jessop< no role > Richard Derry< no role > Robert Grant< no role > James Baker< no role > William Moorhouse< no role > Loftus
Highland James Hatton< no role > Arnold Harvey< no role > William Pike< no role > Thomas Hussey< no role > William Harris< no role > Thomas Davis< no role >
George Weaver< no role > Stephen White< no role > Jacob Barnes< no role > and Samuel Newell< 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 William Curry< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Curry< no role > on the Eighteenth Day of November
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years and nine Months or thereabouts and
being in The Bed Room of his Father Charles Avery situate in Petticoat Lane in the Parish and
County aforesaid wherein a Candle was then burning It so happened That the Linnen Frock
which he the said William Curry< no role > had on and were then and there accidentally, casually and
by Misfortune catclid Fire By Means whereof the Breast Belly and Groin of him the said
William Curry< no role > were then and there mortally scorch't and burnt of which said mortal Scorching
and burning he the said William Curry< no role > from the said Eighteenth Day of November in the Year
aforesaid untill the Twentieth Day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said twentieth
Day of November in the Year aforesaid he the said William Curry< no role > at the Parish aforesaid in
the County aforesaid of the Mortal Scorching and Burning aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said William Curry< no role > in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Curnock< 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

Wm Curnock [mark] Foreman