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Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of
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That the said
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Samuel Castleden
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a Boy of the Age of Eleven
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Years being Bathing in a certain River called the River Thamas
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near to Lord Lincolns Causeway in the Parish of
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on the 19th. day of August 1778, it so happened
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that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the Said
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was in the Waters of the said River then and there
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Suffocated and Drowned of which Said Suffocation and Drowning
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then and there instantly Died.
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And so the Jurors on their Oath say that the Said
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
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Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise
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In Witness where of the Norman on behalf of himself and that
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rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his Hand this 20th, day
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of August 1778.
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