Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish
of Saint George within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the
twenty eighth day of July in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Nathan Codd< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of Thomas Bowles< no role > Richard Lawson< no role > Edward Smith< no role > William Hall< no role > Benjamin
Wolf Thomas< no role > Middleton Richard< no role > Willess Thomas Jubey James Perry< no role > William
Simpson George Tomlinson< no role > David Melvin< no role > William Coward< no role > Richard Harrison< no role > and
Bennet Kibson< no role > good and lawful men ofthe City of London the Borough and County 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 Nathan Codd< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Nathan Codd< no role > on the twenty seventh day of July in the year aforesaid
at the parish aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted a certain pistol
of the value of six pence loaded with gunpowder and a leaden bullet which he in his
right hand then and there had and held to at and against the head of himself the
said Nathan Codd< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to himself the said
Nathan Codd< no role > then and there with the said leaden bullet so shot off and discharged from the said pistol
by the force of the gunpowder aforesaid one mortal wound in and through the head of
himself the said Nathan Codd< no role > of which said mortal wound he the said Nathan Codd< no role >
did then and there dieAnd so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Nathan Codd< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted did shoot and kill himselfIn Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Bowles< 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 abovewritten.

Thos Bowles< no role > [mark]