MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Sixth Day of September in the Twenty first 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Godfrey Nicholson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Isaac Pring< no role > This name instance is in set 00. , Joseph Cunningham< no role > , John Whittington< no role > , Samuel Kerridge< no role > Christian Awe< no role >
James Pounceby< no role > Peter Watts< no role > James Mingay< no role > , Thamas James, William Willis< no role > , Thomas Cannon< no role >
David Nightingale< no role > George Kitchen< no role > , Nathaniel Williams< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Godfrey Nicholson came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Godfrey Nicholson on the Twentieth
Day of September in the Year aforesaid being a mariner on Board a certain Ship
called The Morning Star then lying on the River Thames It so happened
That he the said Godfrey Nicholson then and there accidentally casually and by
Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the Waters thereof then and there
suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Godfrey Nicholson then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said Godfrey Nicholson in manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Isaac Pring< no role > This name instance is in set 00.
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Isaac Pring [mark] Foreman