Southwark

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]

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 Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Thomas Stacy< no role > Thomas Picton William
Clark John Small< no role > John Randall< no role > Henry Jice William Atkinson< no role > John Crump< no role > John Evans< no role > David
Wilson Joseph Borraman and Thomas Agar good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid
who being now here duly chosen swom and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
What manner the said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the said
Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > and divers other persons to the Jurors aforesaid unknow in the third day of
February in the year aforesaid being going to a certain palace of publick Amusement know by
the name of the little Theatre in the Haymarket situate in the parish of Saint Martin in the field
in the County of Middlesex and the said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > and the said other persons being in
the passage leading to the pit of the said play house It so happened that the said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role >
and driver 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 where of and by the excessive heat and pressure the
said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > was then and there suffocated and smothered of which said suffocation
and smothering the said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Brandrum< no role > in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not other wise. In Witness
where of 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 sat their hands
and seals the day year and place frist above written.

Thos Stacy [mark] Foreman