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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of May in the Tenth 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
Henry Nelson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Hardy< no role > , Dederick Hilker< no role > , David Watts< no role > , Richard Wilson< no role > , William Harwood< no role > ,
John White< no role > , Thomas Berry< no role > , Ambrose Pennington< no role > , Joseph Sandell< no role > , Henry Holebrook< no role > , Joseph Jones< no role > ,
William Harris< no role > , Nathaniel Elbourn< no role > , John Nichols< no role > , Charles Taylor< no role > , Daniel Stebbins< no role > , John Cliffe< no role > ,
James Booth< no role > , Samuel Hothoway< no role > and Francis Dickson< no role > good and lawful Men of the 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 Henry Nelson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Henry Nelson< no role > on the Sixth
day of May in the Year aforesaid being a Nightly Lodger in the Dwelling
House of Richard Watson< no role > Victualler situate in Wych Street in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and being greatly
Intoxicated with Liquor, and in Bed in the said House, It so happened
that the said Henry Nelson< no role > , with the Liquor aforesaid, was then and
there Suffocated and Strangled, of which said Suffocation and Strangling
he the said Henry Nelson< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Henry Nelson< no role > in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Joseph Hardy< no role > 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 > [mark] Coroner

Jos. Hardy< no role > [mark] Foreman