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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of August in the Eighteenth 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
Samuel Castleden< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Hodgson< no role > , Henry Rider< no role > , Charles Jenkins< no role > , John Gale< no role > , Thomas Ray< no role > , John Clarke< no role > , Joseph
Woodhead< no role > , Thomas Parks< no role > , David Williams< no role > , William Ambler< no role > , Robert South< no role > by, Robert
Parker< no role > , James Morrison< no role > , Jacob Knight< no role > , and John Noble< no role >
good and lawful Men of the Said 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 Samuel Castleden< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say That the said Samuel Castleden a Boy of the Age
of Eleven Years on the Nineteenth day of August in the year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid being Bathing in a certain River called the River Thames near to Lord Lincoln's
Causeway it so happened that accidentally causally and by Misfortune he the said Samuel
Castleden< no role > was in the Waters of the Said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which
Said Suffocation and Drowning he the Said Samuel Castleden then and there instantly Died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Samuel Castleden 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 Foreman of the Jurors
aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day year and at the Place above Mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Wm Hodgson [mark] Foreman