London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the Seventh day of April in the thirty
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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of
our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of
William Budgh< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of John Blacket< no role > , Richard Hall< no role > William Puckridge< no role > ,
William Griffiths< no role > , Michael Bovill< no role > , John Dolphin< no role > , John Parker< no role > , Robert Read< no role > , John Spencer< no role > , John Puckridge,
Arthur Frankling< no role > John Porsser< no role > , William Bumsted< no role > , and William Catchpole< no role > , good and lawful men
of the Parish and Ward aforesaid who being now here duly chosen Sworn and charged to inquire
for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said William Budgh< no role > came to his
death say upon their Oath that the said William Budgh< no role > being an Infant of tender years on the
fifth day of April in the thirty Second Year aforesaid being in a certain Room in the dwelling House
of one Thomas Dean< no role > there situate and also being near unto the fire place in the said Room and
a certain Iron Poker of the value of one penny being in the fire the said Iron Poker with the
flames and heat of the said Fire then and there became and was violently heated and hot
And it so happened that the said Iron Poker accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from
and out of the said fire upon and over the said William Budgh< no role > by means whereof the said
William Budgh< no role > with the Poker aforesaid was then and there mortally burned of which said mortal
Burning the said William Budgh< no role > from the said fifth day April in the Year aforesaid until the
Sixth day of the same month of April in the same Year as well as the Parish of Saint Luke in the
County of Middlesex as also at the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the said ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said Sixth day
of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish last aforesaid in the ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
the said William Budgh< no role > of the said mortal Burning did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said William Budgh< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune was Burned and killed In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Blacket< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors on 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

John Blacket< no role > [mark] Foreman