Southwark

T. Shelton
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint John within
the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the fifth day of February in the thirty fourth 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 Mary Brandrum< no role > now here
lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Stacy< no role > Thomas Pickton< no role > William Clark< no role > John Small< no role > John Randall< no role >
Henry Tice< no role > William Atkinson< no role > John Crump< no role > John Evans< no role > David Willson< no role > Joseph Boraman and
Thomas Agar good and lawful men of the Borough and County 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 mary Brandrum< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the said Mary Brandrum< no role >
and divers other persons to the Jurors aforesaid as yet unknown being going to a certain place of publick amusement
known by the name of the tittle Theatre in the halfmarket situate at the parish of Saint Martin in the field
in the County of Middlesex and the said Mary Brandrum< no role > and the said other persons being in the passage
leading to the fit of the said playhouse It so happened that the said Mary Brandrum< no role > and divers of the said
other persons accidentally casually and by misfortune fell down a flight of steps in the said passage upon
one another by means whereof and by the excessive heat and pressure the said Mary Brandrum< no role > was then
and there suffocated and smothered of which said suffocation and smothering the said Mary Brandrum< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary
Brandrum in manner and by the means aforesaid came to his death and not otherwise In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Stacy< 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 abovewritten

Ths Stacy< no role > [mark] Foreman