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Dept. to fetch a Constable but afterwards sayed he
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would get one himself: that Greenstreet stood at
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the Door of the Room & refused to let any body pass:
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that the deced & touch Greenstreet two or three times
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in the Face with his open hand with some force
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Joseph Pearce
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the Maid Servt. standing in the Room
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between him and the deced: that Greenstreet Straw
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against a Chair there on the Floor &
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after knocked the deceased
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down with Fist & after he
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was downstruck him two or three ran out for
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Help & returning immediately saw the sd. Greenstreet
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with
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a Clapsed Kinpe open
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in his hand
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therewith giving the deceased three or four stabbs
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on the left side of his Neck: that Greenstreet
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immediately ran out of the House & Dept. saw him
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no more till Yesterday Says the sd. Greenstreet at
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every stable he gave the deced taken up & put on a chair Jas.
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Richards Depts. Fellow Apprentice put his hands to the
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deceds wounds in Order to stop the Blood. That the
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deced immediately after having reced the Wounds cryed
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out oh that Rogues meaning as Dept. believe as the sd.
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Sworn the
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19.th day of Novr. 1761
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before me}
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Tho: Beach
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William Reed
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Sarah Pearce
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. to the deced at the time of his death
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maketh Oath & saith that on Tuesday Evening last the said
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Robt. Greenstreet
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came house to the deced's House & went up
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three pair of Stairs to his Lodging Room there; that he
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presently afterwards came down Stairs again & went out
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at the Street Door, but returned again instantly & entred
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the little Room at the End of the Shop where the deced then
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was: that the sd. Greenstreet then advanced towards the deced
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holding his Fist at him, call in the deced old Son of Bitch and
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demanding of him 50s which was due to him from the deced
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for Wages : that the deced refused to pay till his Quarter was
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up which would be at Christmas & then the deced sayed he
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would pay him: says before Greenstreet the deced
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the saw the deced give him a Pat ortive in the Face with
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his open hand & believes it was only with a design to keep
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Greenstreet from him that he struch Dept. pushed her down
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over a Chair on wch she went up Stairs that soon afterwards
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Dept. went down stairs again and saw Deced lying on the Floor
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wallowing in his Blood, endeavouring to speech,
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bringing
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