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<p n="41"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo39">City & Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westmr</rs>
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. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo40">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this Third day of January<lb></lb>
1775 at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo41">St. Margaret within the Liberty<lb></lb>
of Westminster</rs>
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in the County of Midsex upon on<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65215_n41-1">Joseph Belshaw</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="42"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65215_n42-1">Robert Allpress</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65215_occ12">Watchman</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo42">the Admiralty</rs>
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Office<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith That on Sunday last (January 1st.) a little<lb></lb>
after nine o'Clock in the Foreman Dept. was going along<lb></lb>
White hall, Cover took <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65215_n42-3">Joseph Belshaw</rs>
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the Deced Says that<lb></lb>
they walked together ever Westmr. Bridge, and on their We<lb></lb>
Dept. said to Deced that he understood he was to fight<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65215_n42-2">John Boyce</rs>
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that Morning (the Agreement being made Decr. 27th. last at night in Dept. hearing,) to which Deced answered<lb></lb>
that he was to fight said Boyce that Morning at Ten<lb></lb>
o' Clock in Tothill Down near <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo43">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo44">Bridewell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
that he should be back time enough and expected<lb></lb>
there would be twenty Butchers at Mr. Hubbards the<lb></lb>
Sign of the Anchor and Vine Charging Cross when he<lb></lb>
got back and that it Boyce beat him then he would fichet him arms in a month. Says that they by the first Turn fuke<lb></lb>
beyond Westmr. Bridge, and Dept. went on Business<lb></lb>
into Wallnut <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65215_occ13">tree Walk</rs>
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, That on his Return he most<lb></lb>
the Deced between <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo45">the Horse Guards</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo46">the Admiralty</rs>
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<lb></lb>
with Seven or Eight Men in his Company, when Deced<lb></lb>
said that he was going to meet Boyce by Appointment<lb></lb>
at the Sign of the Bell in Old <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo47">Pye Street</rs>
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to fight him, Says<lb></lb>
that he went with Deced to the Bell, That Boyce was<lb></lb>
not there then, but came there in a Quarter of an<lb></lb>
hour at less, Says that Boyce and the Deced talked<lb></lb>
together in the Tap room about five Minutes, but Dept.<lb></lb>
was not near enough to hear what they said, That Boyce<lb></lb>
went out, and not returning the Deced in about ten<lb></lb>
Minutes went into <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo48">Tothill Fields</rs>
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, where he wanted above<lb></lb>
a Quarter of an hour before Boyce came, That Boyce<lb></lb>
then went to a Publick House near the End of the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo49">Willow<lb></lb>
Walk</rs>
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, and that the Deced after Staying in the Fields a few<lb></lb>
Minutes went into a ublick House in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65215_geo50">Rochester</rs>
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Row<lb></lb>
Dept. in the Fields, that a Ring was made and that<lb></lb>
likewise in the fields, that a Ring was made and that<lb></lb>
Boyce and the Deced come into it, and Stripped off their<lb></lb>
Clothes and went to Fighting, each of them having his Second<lb></lb>
Says</p>
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