MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary White Chapel in the County of
Middlesex , the second Day of January 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 Hincks< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Lann< no role > Mathew Newby William Clarke< no role > Thomas Bedwell< no role > Thomas Jeggett< no role > James Shummer< no role >
James Page< no role > Thomas Fordham< no role > Robert Banks< no role > John Smith< no role > William Howard< no role > Smith and Samuel
Gundry
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 Hincks< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Hincks< no role > on the Twenty Eighth Day
of December in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years on thereabouts and being
Standing near a Fire which was then burning in the Apartment of his Father John Hincks< no role > in
Plough Street in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That a Saucepan with Hot Water which
was then [..] on the said Fire then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
on the said William Hincks< no role > By Means whereof the Breast, Body and Arms of him the said
William Hincks< no role > were then and there mortally scalded and burnt of which said mortal
Scalding and Burning he the said William Hincks< no role > from the said twenty Eighth Day of December
in the Year aforesaid untill the twenty ninth Day of the same Month in the same Year
as the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and Languishing did live on
which said Twenty ninth Day of December in the Year aforesaid he the said William Hincks< no role >
at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the mortal Scalding and Burning aforesaid
did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said William
Hinckes 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 James Lunn< 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

James Lunn [mark] Foreman