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Richard Simmons
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a private
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in the first Regiment of foot Guards maketh oath that
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about a quarter past 11 at night of Saturday seven night last Dept
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on hearing the cry of Murder went into the Sign of the Falstaff Alehouse
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in
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in the parish of Saint Luke
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Room found the deced and
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James Weston
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the Landlord quarelling; that
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the Landlord sayed he could leather the deced, & the deced replied he
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could not, on which the Landlord layed hold of the deced & threw him
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down; that the deced got up, & the Landlord immedy. laid hold of him
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and threw him down again, & the deced while he was down sayed his
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leg was broken, and the landlord directly ran to him, seized him by the
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hair of his head, and struck him with his right fist several times on
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the head; that Dept took the Landlord from the deced, and
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turned Dept out of the house; that
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Dept returned into the house in about two minutes afterwards when
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one
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who was present asked the Landlord for something to
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carry the deced to the Hospital on, who refused, saying "what after he
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has broken my head Innest give him a
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, no I will see him
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damned first". That a shutter was procured from a neighbouring
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house on which the deced was carried to the Hospital.
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Sworn before me the
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day of June 1787
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Richard
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Simmons
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1st
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Mary Cuitt of Helmet Row No. 6
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Middx the Wo.
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of the deced maketh oath that on Saturday sennight last a little
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past 11 at night Dept went into the Falstaff Alehouse to ask her
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husband to come home to Supper, he sayed he would in a minute, and
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then asked a Mr. Parker to charge some light Gold which Dept had
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received of him, on which
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interpred and sayed the deced
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