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<p n="935"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middlx.<lb></lb>
to Wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
Chiswick by Adjornment may 4th. 1781</p>
<p n="936"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n936-1">Thos. Pain</rs>
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<p n="937"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n937-1">James Lewis</rs>
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of this Parish <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ189">Fisherman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Sayeth that one Morning last week about Seven O'Clock<lb></lb>
as he was going to Market he did see <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n937-2">John Merrideth</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ190">Beadle</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo593">Hammersmith</rs>
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take the Deceased<lb></lb>
Thos: Pain out of Mr: Drewrys shop a Bake House in<lb></lb>
in the Said Hamlet and that he Shaved him and bid him<lb></lb>
make hast a long and that I sayed to the Beadle he mite<lb></lb>
be a Shamed to Use the Poor man So Ill he answered you<lb></lb>
Black guard. Rascall must I Loose my Plasie In you<lb></lb>
and I saw the Beadle Strike him with a Stick Switch out Cane<lb></lb>
I went to the Overseer and told him he should not let the<lb></lb>
Poor Man go out of his House And the Overseer Sayed<lb></lb>
he ask'd for some Small Bar and that he gave him Some<lb></lb>
Ail and the Witness sayeth he Thought the Poor man was<lb></lb>
so forble that he was not Capable to walk from the Overseers<lb></lb>
House to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo594">New Bildings in Angle Bow</rs>
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and that the<lb></lb>
Beadles Sayed to the Deceased Now you Sham as if<lb></lb>
You had the Agne and you are only Drunk but the<lb></lb>
Witness did not think him Drunk but as a Dicing man</p>
<p n="938"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n938-1">John Camak</rs>
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of the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo595">Hammer-<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ191">Labourer</rs>
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That the Deceased Thos. Pain<lb></lb>
Lodged at my House Near the Swan at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo596">Hammersmith</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
Saturday the 7th. of April and Sunday 8th. and on Monday<lb></lb>
Morning went a way and Paid for his two Nights lodging<lb></lb>
and on the same Evening the Beadle Brought him back to<lb></lb>
My Lodging House and he Lodging with me that Night<lb></lb>
that on Tuesday Morning he got Up his own Self and<lb></lb>
Sayed he was Some thing Better and Sayed he would go on his<lb></lb>
Journy to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo597">Buckingham</rs>
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Shire and he Stung his Baskett<lb></lb>
Cross his Shoulder and went away that about on House<obscured></obscured>
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