Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields in the Liberty of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter at Westminster the Sixth day of February in the second 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 and in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Sixty two Before John Feary< no role > Coroner
for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster aforesaid, upon a View of the
Body of Elizabeth Read< no role > and infant of the Age of three Years then lying Dead in the Parish of St. Martin
in the Feilds in the Liberty of Westminster aforesaid by the Oaths of Edward Goward< no role > , Thomas Slogdale< no role > ,
James Stiles< no role > , James Ennison< no role > , Henry Hanks< no role > , Francis Allen< no role > , John Lodge< no role > , John Buhl< no role > , Christr. Sink< no role > ,
William Gilling< no role > , Andrew Hog< no role > , Henry Mills< no role > , Joseph Mason< no role > , John Albin< no role > John Acorn< no role > , William Wendley< no role >
Isaac Phillipon< no role > , Sollomon Moxley< no role > Thos. Forshal< no role > , & Thos. Jeffreys< no role > Good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being
Sworn and charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King, how when where and in what manner, the
said Elizabeth Read< no role > came to her Death, say upon their Oaths. That on Friday the fifth Instant the said
Elizabeth Read< no role > being of the Age of 3 Years and (where its Parents dwell) alone in a Room in a certain
House in Northumberland Court situate in the Parish of St. Martin in the Feilds in the Liberty aforesd
it so happened that the said Elizabeth Read< no role > as she was then and there in the said Room in which
there was a Fire that the said Fire, then and there accidently, Casually and by Misfortune the
Cloaths of the said Elizabeth Read< no role > , did Fire by reason whereof and from the Smoke and Flame
arising from the said Fire she the said Elizabeth Read< no role > was then and [..]
there suffocated and Burnt of which said suffocation and Burning she the said Elizabeth
Read< no role > then and there died, and so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say that that
the said Elizabeth Read< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise, In Witness whereof the Coroner as well as the,
Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have hereunto set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
Place abovementioned

Jno. Feary< no role > .Coroner .

Thos. Jefferys< no role > Foreman