MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Liberty
of Norton Falgate in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh 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
Thomas Lawrence< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Goodes< no role > Joseph Pocock< no role > Thomas Barton< no role > John Infnell William Lewis< no role > Samuel Meadows< no role > Joseph Jay
William Salmon< no role > Edward Page< no role > John James< no role > James Phillips< no role > Henry Dady< no role > and Thomas Rose< 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 Thomas Lawrence< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Lawrence< no role > on the Twenty third Day
of December in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of three years or thereabouts and
being in a Room upon Pair of Stairs in the Dwelling House of Rice Morris< no role > situate in Cook
Alley in the Liberty and County aforesaid in which said Room a Fire was then burning
It so happened That the Cloaths which he the said Thomas Lawrence< no role > had on and were then
and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune took Fire By Means whereof the Head
Breast, Belly and Privities of him the said Thomas Lawrence< no role > were then and there mortally
scorch'd and burnt of which said mortal Scorching and Burning he the said Thomas Lawrence< no role >
then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
Thomas Lawrence< 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 Goodes< 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

John Goodes [mark] Foreman