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Examination of Stephen Portsmouth< no role > of Feltham Laburer
Says on his Oath that he
Saw E [..] dward Jacobs< no role > , take John Taylor< no role > by the Coller and
throw him down twice in the kitchen of Mr Follet a but
10 of the Clock at Night on Minday 17th of May and then
Mr Follet the Master of the house told then that they
should not fight in his house but if they would, fight to
go out and fightthen they stript andthey w [..] ent out and
Stript to fight and after they Stript, fight I Taylor said
that he would sooner go and drink Parle of a Pot of beer
with him then to fight with him for the was s [..] ure he
Could, beet him then Eadwad Jacob said that he would fight
I Taylor, for that you have bin the Cham [..] pion and I will
fight you and he heard the decesd, say that he could [..] not fight
any more and the witness saw the deceasd, on the ground
when he said that he Could not fight aney more and the
decesd, expired in about half an houer afterward,

The Mark [mark] of
Stephen Portsmouth< no role > ,




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