MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the
Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth 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 > Esquire
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Mary Bugden< no role > [..] then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Higden Collins< no role > John Neal< no role > , Charles Andrews< no role > , Samuel Harper< no role > , John Potter< no role >
John Stacey< no role > , William Clark< no role > , James Cave< no role > , John Fleming< no role > William Stokes< no role > , William
Beverley and Samuel Bateman< 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 Bugden< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Bugden< no role > on the Ninth Day of March
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Three Years or thereabouts And being sitting
near a Fire which was then burning in a one Pair of Stairs Room at Haggerstone in the
Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the Cloaths which she the said Mary
Bugden had on and were then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune catch'd Fire
By Means whereof the Head Breast Body and Arms of her the said Mary Bugden< no role > were then
and there mortally scorch't and burnt, of which said mortal Scorching and Burning she the
said Mary Bugden< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Mary Bugden< 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 Higden Collins< 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
Higden Collins [mark] Foreman