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<p n="12"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo9">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n12-1">John Roberts</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50502_geo10">St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<p n="13">Who being on Oath says that on Saturday Night last<obscured></obscured>
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three Persons came to this Informant's House to with two<lb></lb>
Persons now present, and an absent Person who at<lb></lb>
that Time appeared to belong to them says that between the<lb></lb>
hours of ten and Eleven o Clock an Affray happened<lb></lb>
arising from a Quarrell begun by a Person now present<lb></lb>
who calls himself Dane, with one Eastgate and another<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50502_occ4">Gentleman</rs>
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, says that at last they began to Fight with<lb></lb>
Sticks, says that he presently saw the said Dane upon his<lb></lb>
Stairs with a drawn Sword in one hand and a Stick<lb></lb>
in the other, and saw one Priestly now present in the<lb></lb>
midst of the Affray, but did not see him the said Priestly<lb></lb>
Strike any Person whatever or do any other particular <lb></lb>
Offensive Act, says that soon after this the said Dane returned<lb></lb>
into this Informant's back Room and declared without concern that he<lb></lb>
had run a Man through the Shoulders having then his<lb></lb>
drawn Sword in his hand</p>
<p n="14">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
13th. day of Octr. 1761 }</p>
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<p n="16"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50502_n16-1">John Roberts</rs>
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