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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of December in the Thirty 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 Mary West< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of David Watts< no role > , Daniel Parslow< no role > , Harry Laurance< no role > , Martin Platts< no role >
George Gray< no role > , John Field< no role > , Joseph Stenson< no role > , John Ellsworth< no role > , Benjamin Croydon< no role >
David Leslie< no role > , Joseph Yordley< no role > , John Coleman< no role > , Thomas Dawson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Peter
Wilkinson< no role > , Edward Baker< no role > , William Darby< no role > , and Ailking Gilbert< 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 Mary West< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Twenty eighth day of December
in the Year aforesaid the said Mary West< no role > being alone in her Lodging Room or
Apartment in the Dwelling House of John Nash< no role > , situate in Stanhope Street in the
said Parish of St. Clement Danes within the Liberty and County aforesaid and
being weak and infirm, and sitting near the Fire It so happened that the Cloaths which
the said Mary West< no role > had on her Body Accidentally causally and by Misfortune took fire,
by means whereof she the said Mary West< no role > was then and there burnt in and upon her
Head and great part of her Body, of which said burning she the said Mary West< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Mary West< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally in
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said David Watts< 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 > [mark] Coroner

David Watt< no role > [mark] Foreman