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 St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Second day of March in the Fourteenth Year
of the Regin 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
Mary Burchell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Jasper
Smith< no role > , William Storer< no role > , Thomas Watts< no role > , Joseph Exer< no role > , Robert Tombling< no role > , Mark
Potter< no role > , Thomas Masters< no role > , George Stovell< no role > , Richard Wyatt< no role > , William Farnborough< no role >
Joseph Grace< no role > and William Skeat< 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 Mary Burchell came to
h er Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Burchell (suspected
to have been Murdered) on the Twenty fourth day of February in the
Year aforesaid, being in Green Street in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being then and there seized with
a violent Fit of Coughing, whereby one of the Vessels in the Head of
the said Mary Burchell Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
was then and there Ruptured, by Means whereof, and by the great
loss and effusion of Blood, she the said Mary Burchell then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Mary Burchell in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid came to her death, and not by any hurt or
injury from any Person whatsoever. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Jasper Smith 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 > Coroner
Jasper Smith< no role >
Foreman