City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex }

Information taken this Twenty second day of
February 1768 at the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty of Westminster in the County
of Middlesex , on an Inquisition touching the Death of
Abraham Jabelleaue< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Thomas Farrens< no role > at the Sign at the Thistle and Crown in Swallow
Street in the Parish of St. James Westmr . Victualler on his Oath saith
That Abraham Javelleaue< no role > the Deced was a Lodger with Dept.
and was in Deponents Taproom on the Twenty third day of
January last about Ten o'Clock in the Evening, Says that a
Man came into the Room with Polonies and that the Deced
taked up with him for one of them, and won the first time
and again won the second Toss Deced ward but the Man with the
Polonies said it was not a fair Toss and would not let the
Deced have the Polony, upon which the Deced took a Polony
by force out of the Man's Basket, Says that Thomas, where
Sir name Dept. knows not, known by the name of Thomas
Tinderbox, who was in the same Taproom spoke to the Deced
and called him several Names giving him abusive
Languge, and struck the Deced on the face with his Hand
upon which they want to fighting, and Dept. immediately
stept between them and received some blows, Says that
Thomas Tinderbox < no role > was put out of the Room, and in
about five Minutes came in again, Says that Iavelleance
there upon jumped over a Box and struck said Tinder box,
and that they both agreed to go into the Yard to Fight,
Says that Tinderbox went out immediately, and that the
Deced stripped of his Coat Wastcoat and Shirt in the Taproom
this Dept. endeavoured to perswade him not to go out but
Deced insisted on fighting, and went out, This Dept. says
that he did not go out but Deced came into the House again
in about five and Twenty Minutes, his Head being very
Bloody and one of his Eyes very black, Says that he got
a Chair in which the Deced was soon after carried to St.
George's Hospital , where he saw a Wound on the Deced's
Head dressed by one of the Surgeons.

The Mark of
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Thomas Ferrens< no role >