- Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 26 February, 39 Eliz. [1597], before Henry Billingsley, knight, Mayor and escheator, after the death of Cornelius Godfrey, by the oath of William Harvie, William Crowche, John Jennynges, Edward Pillesworthe, Robert Durante, Robert Sawnders, Christopher Askwithe, William Chambers, Richard Milles, Henry Best, James Tailor, Edward Catcher, Henry Earsley, James Felles, Richard Blinckorne and Thomas Pulforde, who say that
Cornelius Godfrey long before and on the day of his death was seised of all that corner house, capital messuage, tenement, hospice (inn = hospitio) or brew-house called le George, situate in the parish of St. Botolph without Aldersgate, London, and all other messuages, houses, cottages, yards, gardens, orchards, springs (wells = fontibus) of water, water-courses, lights, easements, profits, &c., thereto belonging lying in the said parish, in the tenures of William Kenyan, John Shawcrosse, John Barnesley and Michael —.
The said capital messuage and all other the premises are held in free burgage of the City of London, and are worth per ann., clear, £7.
Cornelius Godfrey died 2 November, 35 Eliz. [1593]; Cornelius Godfrey is his son and next heir, and is now aged 30 years and more.
From: 'Inquisitions: 1597', Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the City of London: Part 3 (1908), pp. 245-256.
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