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February 1769

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Peter Stokes< no role > of Spitalfields Market Butcher Saith
That he Come into the Slaughter house Accidentally And
some of the People in the Slaughter house said "Peter You have
Lost All the Fun"That Dobbs's Man Thomas Lewis< no role >
and George Allen< no role > had been FightingThat when
Informant Came in Allen was telling Lewis that he would
fight him for a Crown andafterdirectly afterwards
they stripd' naked and went to fightingThat Thomas
Lewis
< no role > Desired they might have fair Play And Informant
and the Others told them they shouldThat they
throwd' One another and Hit One another Monstrous hard
And they fought about Eight or Ten Minutes
That Thomas Lewis< no role > gave Allen One Blow which Knock'd
him down Informant thinks that Blow was given
about the RibsThat as they were making a sort
of a Feint at One another Allen to Save a Blow fell
into a Tub of WaterThat only Thomas Lewis< no role > 's Arm
was in the Tub of WaterThat Bob Drewry
got Allen Out of the TubThat then Allen went
into the Slaughter house And Turn'd very Pale
And would not Put on any of his ThingsThat Mr. Warner
Sent for some GinAnd the Deceased Drank some
of itThat he Desired to Sit down And then Lay down
on his sideAfterwards he went to Ease himself
And then Lay down again And Complained of want of
Breath And Died in about Eighteen or Twenty Minutes




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