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 seventeenth day of February in the thirtieth 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 ward so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our Said Lord the King for the City of London and
Borough of Southward in view of the body of Nicholas Lilion< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Wilkinson< no role >
Thomas Hopkins< no role > William Edmondson< no role > , Richard Godwin< no role > , John Richardson< no role > , James Sanders< no role > , William Lee< no role >
William Giles< no role > David Key< no role > , Samuel wise, Francis Brogder< no role > John Oment< no role > [..] George Remington< no role > and John Mistake good
and lawful men of the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid who beeing now here duly charen sworn
and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and after that manner the said Nicholas
Lilian< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Nicholas Lilian< no role > on the sixteenth day of
February in the Year aforesaid being in and on board a certain Vessell called a Lighter then lying in the
River Thomas It so happened that the said Nicholas Lihon< no role > in attempting and endeavouring to fix and
fasten a certain Rope of and belonging to the Said Lighter unto and about the head of a certain other Vessell
then also lying in the said River Thames and near unto the said Lighter accidentally casually and by
misfortune did fall from and out of the said Lighter into the said River Thames and in and with the waters of
the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said saffocation and drowning he the
said Nicholas Lihon< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Nicholas Lilian< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and by misfortune was
suffocated and Drowned In Witness wherof as well the said Coroner as the said John Wilkinson< no role > the
foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this
inquisition set thier hands and seals the day Year and place first above written.

John Wilkinson< no role > [mark] Foreman