Middlesex

Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
acknowledged on the Behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
touching the Death of me Thomas whose Surname is unknown
at the Dwelling House of William Burrows< no role >
Known by the Sign of the Chequers
in the Parish of Harrow in the
County of Middlesex on Thursdaythe eleventh
Day of Mayin the twenty sixth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the third before
me Edward Umfrevilleone of his Majesty's Coroners
for the said County on an Inquisition then and there taken
on View of the Body of the said Thomas
then and there lying Dead as follow to wit

William King< no role > of Appleton in the County of Middlesex Labourer
maketh oath that on Saturday night last Dspt was at the House of Mr. Burrows
Known by the Sign of the Chequers at Appleton aforesaid where also was the deced
Richard Middlesex and several others. Says that the deced and Middleton
drank together, that the deced sayed he thought Middleton would never fight him
any more, to which Middleton answered he was not afraid of him that if he was had
then if he meant anything of that [..] neaning fight) that they presently
afterwards went Out into an adjoining field where they tought together (having
first stripped in the House) for a quarter of an hour or upwards; that many
blows passed between then and they were both of them several times thrown down
that some persons who were present then inter hosed and presented their, fight
longer; Says that the deced and Middleton returned again to Mr. Burrow's house
where they drank together and Dept left them there about 12 o'Clock at night
Says that some little time after they had returned to the House the deced wanted to
fight with Middleton again who refused.

The Mark of
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William King< no role >

Jacob Perkins< no role > of Appleton aforesaid Labourer maketh oath that
on Saturday night last Deponent saw the deced and Richard Middleton< no role > fighting
together in a field; that they continued fighting a quarter of an hour or more,
that in the course of the fight the deced sayed he would not leave Middleton, that
he would break his Neck and would not be hat by him; and presently afterwards
he threw a Middleton a violent fall & he fell with his Head under him; Oept says
that Mr. Burrows interfered and they were harted, and returned to Mr. Burrows