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<p n="1024">Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1024-1">Samuel<lb></lb>
Castleden</rs>
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<p n="1025">That the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1025-1">Samuel Castleden</rs>
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a Boy of the Age of Eleven<lb></lb>
Years being Bathing in a certain River called the River Thamas<lb></lb>
near to Lord Lincolns Causeway in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65218_geo1147">St. Margaret<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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on the 19th. day of August 1778, it so happened<lb></lb>
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1025-2">Saml.<lb></lb>
Castleden</rs>
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was in the Waters of the said River then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Drowned of which Said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1025-3">Samuel Castleden</rs>
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then and there instantly Died.<lb></lb>
And so the Jurors on their Oath say that the Said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1025-4">Samuel<lb></lb>
Castleden</rs>
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in manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally<lb></lb>
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise<lb></lb>
In Witness where of the Norman on behalf of himself and that<lb></lb>
rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his Hand this 20th, day<lb></lb>
of August 1778.</p>
<p n="1026"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65218_n1026-1">Wm Hodgson</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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