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<p n="1027"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1148">Westminster</rs>
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<p n="1028">Informations of Witnesses taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
this 20th, day of August 1778, at the Dwelling House of<lb></lb>
Mr. Girdleston the Sign of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1149">Brown Bear</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1150">Westminster<lb></lb>
Bridge</rs>
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foot in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of<lb></lb>
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, Before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1028-2">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65218_occ315">Gentleman</rs>
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His<lb></lb>
Majesty's Coroner for the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1152">City and Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1028-3">Samuel Castleden</rs>
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in the Said<lb></lb>
Parish and City then and there lying Dead</p>
<p n="1029"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1029-1">John Baynes</rs>
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aged 11 Years at No. 2 in Downing Street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1153">St.<lb></lb>
Margaret </rs>
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Westmr. says that yesterday betwixt 6 & 7 o' Clock<lb></lb>
in the Evening, Says he called on the Deced, and they went<lb></lb>
with two more Boys to go into the Water and went to the<lb></lb>
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in New <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1155">Palace Yard</rs>
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and all<obscured></obscured>
ipt and went<lb></lb>
like the Water, Says the Deced could not Swim, nor the<lb></lb>
Deponent, but the other two Boys, the two Boys desired the<lb></lb>
Deced to go first which he did Paddling along, and when<lb></lb>
he got about opposite to Lord Lincolns Causeway, he heard one<lb></lb>
of the Boys say that the Deced had Lunk to the Bottom<lb></lb>
the Boys called <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1156">trinity</rs>
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for a Boat and Several Boats came<lb></lb>
and they Searched but did not find him for about half an hour<lb></lb>
and then three Men went into the Water and one found the</p>
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