MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit.)}
AN INQUISITION Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Mary White Chapell
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Third Day of March 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 Larry< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Benjamin Price< no role >
,
Thomas Bedwell< no role >
,
John Rogers< no role >
,
John Hammond< no role >
Nathaniel Reddington< no role >
,
William Swan< no role >
Joseph Flamstone< no role >
,
William Clarke< no role >
,
Samuel Monk< no role >
,
Charles Meyers< no role >
Thomas Mole< no role >
and
Richard
Thompson< 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 Larry< no role >
came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Larry on the Twenty seventh Day
of February in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Two Years or thereabouts
And being alone in a Two Pair of Stairs Room in Darby Street in the Parish of Saint Botolph
Aldgate
in the County aforesaid in which Room a Coal Fire was then Burning It so happened
That the Cotton Bed Gown which she the said
Mary Larry< no role >
had on and were then and there accidentally
casually and by misfortune took Fire By means whereof the Head Breast, Body and Thighs
of her the said
Mary Larry< no role >
were then and there, mortally searched and burnt, Of which said mortal
Scorching and Burning she the said
Mary Larry< no role >
from the said Twenty seventh Day of February
in the year aforesaid untill the Twenty Eighth Day of the same month in the same year
at the Parish last aforesaid and also at the Parish of Saint Mary White Chapell aforesaid
to wit in a certain Hospital called The London Hospital
did Languish and Languishing did live on which said Twenty Eighth Day of February
in the Year aforesaid she the said
Mary Larry< no role >
at the Hospital
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 Larry 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 Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176.
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
Benjamin Rice [mark] Foreman