London

Thos. [mark] Shelton< no role >
Coroner

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the ward of
Bishopsgate without in London aforesaid on the third day of March in the thirty
fifth 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 Alice Taylor< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of William Hall< no role > Thomas Meymoth< no role > Charles Swain< no role > John Pet Jacob
Cloake George Walter< no role > Nathaniel Calender Joseph Woollam Walter West< no role > Thomas
Legget James Webb< no role > Alexander Read< no role > George Stroud< no role > Richard Bradley< no role > Joseph Smith< no role >
and William Ankers< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London 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 Alice Taylor< no role > came to her death say
upon their oath that the said Alice Taylor< no role > on the first day of March in the year
aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being sitting near a
certain fire place in a certain room wherein there was then a fire in the dwelling house
of the said Alice Taylor< no role > [..] there situate It so happened that the Garments and
cloaths which the said Alice Taylor< no role > then had on accidentally casually and by misfortune
caught fire by means whereof the said Alice Taylor< no role > was then and there mortally burned of
which said mortal burning she the said Alice Taylor< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Alice Taylor< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was accidentally burned to death
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Hall< 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

W Hall [mark] Foreman