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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of February in the twenty 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, 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
Hannah Cley< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Balfour< no role > , Robert Reeves< no role > , John Stevens< no role > , John Newman< no role > , George
Pealing< no role > , Michael Roberts< no role > , Frederick Retiling< no role > , Samuel Townsend< no role >
William May< no role > , William Peters< no role > , Richard Hoare< no role > , William White< no role >
John Randall< no role > and John Davis< 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 Hannah Cley came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Hannah Cley an Infant
of the Age of two Years being in the Lodging Room of Frances Clay< no role >
her Mother in the Dwelling House of John Stevens< no role > situate in
Duck Lane in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid on the Nineteenth day of February in the
Year aforesaid, and then and there standing near the Fire.
It so happened that the Linnen Cloaths which she the said
Hannah Cley 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, she the said Hannah Cley
was then and there suffocated and burnt of which said Suffocation
and Burning she the said Hannah Cley then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Hannah Cley 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 Robert Balfour 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

[mark]
Robert Balfour
Foreman