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to Wit.

Chiswick by Adjornment may 4th. 1781

Thos. Pain< no role >

James Lewis< no role > of this Parish Fisherman
Sayeth that one Morning last week about Seven O'Clock
as he was going to Market he did see John Merrideth< no role > the
Beadle of Hammersmith take the Deceased
Thos: Pain out of Mr: Drewrys shop a Bake House in
in the Said Hamlet and that he Shaved him and bid him
make hast a long and that I sayed to the Beadle he mite
be a Shamed to Use the Poor man So Ill he answered you
Black guard. Rascall must I Loose my Plasie In you
and I saw the Beadle Strike him with a Stick Switch out Cane
I went to the Overseer and told him he should not let the
Poor Man go out of his House And the Overseer Sayed
he ask'd for some Small Bar and that he gave him Some
Ail and the Witness sayeth he Thought the Poor man was
so forble that he was not Capable to walk from the Overseers
House to the New Bildings in Angle Bow and that the
Beadles Sayed to the Deceased Now you Sham as if
You had the Agne and you are only Drunk but the
Witness did not think him Drunk but as a Dicing man

John Camak< no role > of the Hamlet of Hammer-
Smith Labourer That the Deceased Thos. Pain
Lodged at my House Near the Swan at Hammersmith on
Saturday the 7th. of April and Sunday 8th. and on Monday
Morning went a way and Paid for his two Nights lodging
and on the same Evening the Beadle Brought him back to
My Lodging House and he Lodging with me that Night
that on Tuesday Morning he got Up his own Self and
Sayed he was Some thing Better and Sayed he would go on his
Journy to Buckingham Shire and he Stung his Baskett
Cross his Shoulder and went away that about on House [..]