House where they drank together and seemed good friends with each other for some time
in about half an hour the deced wanted to fight Middleton a second time but Middleton
refused to fight him; that then the deced asked Dept if he was the man to take Middletons was
and Dept answered No and Dept presently afterwards went away. And Dept farther saith that
he saw the deced on Saturday eve. before the fight, and says he had black Eye and complained
that his Legs were sone and sayed that he had been at a pair in Sussex on the Monday before where
three or four Men had fallen on him and Richard and abused him a good deal. And Dept further
says the deced appeared to have a Cold on him Says he saw him on Sunday more when the deced
complained of his Throat and Dept saw him again on Monday when he sayed that he was better.

Jacob Perkins< no role >

Richard Egerton< no role > of Ealing in the County of Middlesex Surgeon maketh oath
that he hath seen and examined the body of the deced, and says the deced appears Same received
a How on the left side of the Head a little below the Ear, and says that there is a good deal of
blood in the Wind pipe of the deced and Dept is of Opinion that the aforesaid How led caused a
Repture of one of the blood Vessels of the Neck of the whereby he bled inwardly which caused
his Death.

Richard Egerton< no role >

William Burrows< no role > of Appleton in the County of Middlesex Victualler Markett
oath that on Dept return home to his House the fight the Chequers on Saturday last about half
past four in the afternoon he found the deced there who had a bad black eye The Cola Dept that be had come from
Sussex the monday before where he had met with some fellows who had used him every illy and he told
Dept that he had got a sore Throat and a great Cold. And Dept says that Middlesex [..] then in Dept.
House and the deced and he were drinking together and seemed very friendly with each other; that
between 8 and 9 in the eve the deced sayed Dick (means. Middleton) would never fight him
any more, to which Middleton replied Do not make folks believe that I am a paid of you fer
I am not a paid of you not that I want to fight you but if you do I will fight you, upon which
they immedy. stripped and went out & fought together in an adjoining field for a quarter of an
hour or more, Says there was no foul fighting on side, that many Hows passed between
then and each of them had sumal falls; that at length Dept inter posed and with some difficulty
presented their fightings anymore; Says they then returned to Dept House & drank together
and were friends, but in at out half an hour afterwards the deced wanted to fight Middleton
again but how fused, and Dept says they continued drinking together for a considerable time
Dept says the deced did not complain at all during this time, but on Sunday more he complained