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 St. Margaret in the City of Westminster within
the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westmin
ster in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of March in the Sixth 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 Edward Nichols< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Patton< no role > , Robert Watson< no role > Alexander Smilely< no role > , Robert Wright< no role > , John Taylor< no role >
Silas Payne< no role > , Thomas Huntley< no role > , William Stratford< no role > , Giles Blackman< no role > , John Goulden< no role >
Thomas Greenaway< no role > , Joseph King< no role > , and Andrew Read< no role > ,
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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 Edward Nichols< no role > Came to his Death, do upon the
Oath say, That the said Edward Nichols< no role > on the Twenty first day of February in the Year
aforesaid being shut out of his Lodging, in the Dwelling House of Nichols situate at
Vaux hall in the Parish of St. Mary Lambeth in the County of Surry, And the said Edward Nichols< no role >
having then and there Climbed up a Wooden Spout in order to get into the said House at and
through a Window near the top thereof, It so happened that the said Edward Nichols< no role > Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune did then and there fall down off and from the said House unto the Ground
whereby the said Edward Nichols< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually and by misfortune
receive divers mortal Bruises in and upon his Back, Loins and Stomach, of which said
mortal Bruises he the said Edward Nichols< no role > from the said Twenty first day of February in the Year
aforesaid until the Twelfth day of March in the same Year, at the Westminster Hospital in the said
Parish of St. Margaret, within the City Liberty and County aforesaid did languish and languishing
did live, on which said Twelfth day of March in the Year aforesaid, he the said Edward Nichols< no role > ,
their Oath aforesaid, do say, by Misfortune, came to his Death, and not otherwise In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Robert Patton 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 Year and Place first above Written.

Tho PrickardCoroner

Robt. PattenForeman