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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of September in the Twenty first 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
Thomas Chandler< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Ashmore< no role > William Newton< no role > Thomas Holloway< no role > John Leeson< no role > ,
Christopher Hawkes< no role > , Henry Holt< no role > , Joseph Mathers< no role > , Charles Smith< no role >
John Eade< no role > William Cartwright< no role > Joseph Niblow< no role > , Robert
Bradfield< no role > and William Mourn< 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 Thomas Chandler< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Thomas Chandler< no role > a
Laborer on the fifth day of September in the Year aforesaid
being at Work in the Brewhouse of Edward Burnaby Greene< no role >
Esquire in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid and going up some Steps in the said Brewhouse
it so Happened that this feet slipped and that the said Thomas
Chandler< no role > then and there Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
fell into one of the Backs full of hot Wort, whereby the said Thomas
Chandler< no role > was then and there very much Scalded and burnt
in his Body, of which he languished from the said fifth day
of September an the Year aforesaid until the fourteenth day
of the same Month and Year and languishing did live, on
which said fourteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, he the said Thomas Chandler< no role > of the Scalding
and Burning aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Chandler< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came
to his death and not other wise. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Ashmore< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Jos: Ashmore Foreman