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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fourth day of May in the Eighth 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
Susanna Innes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Jones< no role >
William Wray< no role > , William Watson< no role > , John Haynes< no role > , George Tapper< no role > , Samuel Floyd< no role > , James
Norris< no role > , Samuel Smallman< no role > , John Coats< no role > , Richard Scrase< no role > , Robert Holland< no role > , Robert Potter< no role > ,
Francis Toplady< no role > , and James Whalley< 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 Susanna Innes came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid
the said Susanna Innes Servant to Bernard Perny< no role > , going into the Garden or
Place behind the House of the said Bernard Perny to empty a Chamber pot,
in the Parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surry, and then and there
lifting up a small line which was (unknown to the said Susanna Innes) fixed
to the Tri of a certain Gun or Blunderbuss charged with Gunpowder and
leaden Bullets, in the Larder on the back part of the House of the said Bernard
Perny, (which said Larder and Garden had been several times broke open and
Robbed) It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune the said
Gun or Blunderbuss, so loaded and charged as aforesaid, went off and was
discharged, and she the said Susanna Innes by means of the Discharge of
the said Blunderbuss as aforesaid, did then and there require one mortal
Fracture in and upon her left Arm, of which said mortal Fracture she the said
Susanna Innes from the said fifth day of May in the Year aforesaid until the twenty-
third day of the same Month and Year at St George's Hospital in the said Parish of St
George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid dis languish and
languishing did live, on which said Twenty third day of May in the Year aforesaid
she the said Susanna Innes at the Hospital aforesaid, of the mortal Fracture aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Susanna Innes, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, accidentally
casually and by misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Jones< 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Wm Jones< no role > [..] Foreman