MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapell in the County of
Middlesex , the sixteenth Day of December 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
John Bartlett< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Allibone, William Swan< no role > , William Pitcher< no role > , Richard Page< no role > , Samuel Monk< no role > John Smith< no role >
Richard Thompson< no role > , Joseph Flamstone< no role > , Benjamin Austin< no role > , John Rogers< no role > William Howard< no role >
Smith and Thomas Mole< 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 John Bartlett< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Bartlett< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of December
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Four Years or thereabouts And being in a Two Pair
of Stairs Room in the House ofHughes situate in the Parish and County aforesaid in
which a Fire was then burning It so happened That the Linnen Bed Gown which he the said
John Bartlett< no role > had on and were then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune catch'd Fire
By Means whereof the Head, Breast and Body of him the said John Bartlett< no role > were then and there
mortally scorch'd and burnt. Of which said mortal Scorching and Burning he the said John
Bartlett then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That
the said John Bartlett< 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 John Allibone
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

John Allibone [mark] Foreman