MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty ninth 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
Francis Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Smith< no role > , John Billett< no role > , Thomas Bing, Richard Gray< no role > , John Hill< no role > , Ambrose Turner< no role > , George
Booth, William Warner< no role > , Alexander Disertier< no role > , John Freneaw< no role > , William Wren< no role > , Richard Mumford< no role >
Michael Goodard< no role > , Stephen Miles< no role > , Francis Duncalfe< no role > , John Turner< no role > and John Seliez< 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 Frances Smith< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oaths say, That the said Frances Smith< no role > on the Twenty seventh
Day of March in the Year aforesaid being intoxicated with strong Liquor and having laid
herself down in The Kings Highway near The Queens Head in Queens Row in the Parish
and County aforesaid It happened That she the said Frances Smith< no role > was by the Fumes
arising from the said Liquor then and there choaked suffocated and stifled, of which said
Choaking Suffocation and Stifling she the said Frances Smith< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Frances Smith< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid came to her Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Smith< 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
Edward Smith [mark] Foreman