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 thirtieth 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
Mary Simpson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Bird< no role > John George< no role > Joseph Goldsborough Edward Barrett James Coroner William Peacock< no role > John
Shang William Blake< no role > William Coleman< no role > Douglass Wire< no role > John Niles< no role > Henry Morey< no role > Richard Herne< no role > John
Tubby James White< no role > George King< no role > Thomas Kennell< no role > and Francis Nash< 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 Mary Simpson< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Simpson< no role > on the Twenty fifth Day
of December in the Year aforesaid being in her Apartment in Golden Lane in the Parish and
County aforesaid with same Fire burning in an Earthen Pot under her Cloaths It so happened
That the Linnen Shift which she the said Mary Simpson< no role > had on and were then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune took Fire By, means whereof the Legs, Knees Thighs
and Hands of her the said Mary Simpson< no role > were then and there mortally scorch'd and burnt of
which said mortal Scorching and Burning she the said Mary Simpson< no role > from the said twenty
fifth Day of December in the year aforesaid untill the Twenty sixth 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 Twenty sixth Day of December in the year aforesaid she the said
Mary Simpson< 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 Mary Simpson< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
Misfortune came to her Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Bird< 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 Bird [mark] Foreman