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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Tenth day of January in the Fourteenth 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 Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Lady Dodington Montagu< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis Jones< no role >
Caleb Atkinson< no role > , John Edridge< no role > , John Duckett< no role > , Lewis Dupuy< no role > , Robert Elliot< no role > , Spencer Draper< no role > , John
Corney< no role > , Edward Thomas< no role > , Leo Priddle< no role > , William Allam< no role > , William Nodes< no role > , William Allen< no role > , John
Giblett< no role > , James Moody< no role > , Duncan Stewart< no role > , Simon Liefe< no role > , Nathaniel Moor, Robert Anderson< no role > , William
Carstlake< no role > , Francis Doyle< no role > , Enoch Hodkinson< no role > and Richard Taylor< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Lady Dodington Montagu came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Lady Dodington Montagu being
of the Age of Eighty Years, and weak and infirm in Body, on the Seventh day
of January in the Year aforesaid being alone in the Dining Room in her
Dwelling House situate in lower Grosvenor Street in the Parish Liberty and
County aforesaid, and having two Candles burning before her in the said
Room, It so happened that the Cloths of her the said Lady Dodington
Montagu which she then and there had on her Body Accidentally casually
and by Misfortune took Fire, by Reason whereof and from the Smoke
and Flame arising from the said Fire, the Neck Face and Hands
of her the said Lady Dodington Montagu were then and there much
Burnt, of which said Burning she the said Lady Dodington
Montagu then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Lady Dodington Montagu in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune came to her death and not otherwise In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Francis Jones< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his
Fellows in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Fs. Jones< no role > Foreman