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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and
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acknowledged on the Behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King
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touching the Death of me Thomas whose Surname is unknown
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at the Dwelling House of
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on Thursdaythe
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eleventh
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Day of Mayin the twenty sixth Year of the
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Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the third
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before
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me Edward Umfrevilleone of his Majesty's Coroners
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for the said County on an Inquisition then and there taken
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on View of the Body of the said Thomas
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then and there lying Dead as follow to wit
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William King
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maketh oath that on Saturday night last Dspt was at the House of Mr. Burrows
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Known by the Sign of the Chequers at
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aforesaid where also was the deced
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Richard
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and several others. Says that the deced and Middleton
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drank together, that the deced sayed he thought Middleton would never fight him
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any more, to which Middleton answered he was not afraid of him that if he was had
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then if he meant anything of that
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neaning fight) that they presently
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afterwards went Out into an adjoining field where they tought together (having
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first stripped in the House) for a quarter of an hour or upwards; that many
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blows passed between then and they were both of them several times thrown down
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that some persons who were present then inter hosed and presented their, fight
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longer; Says that the deced and Middleton returned again to Mr. Burrow's house
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where they drank together and Dept left them there about 12 o'Clock at night
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Says that some little time after they had returned to the House the deced wanted to
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fight with Middleton again who refused.
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maketh oath that
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on Saturday night last Deponent saw the deced and
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fighting
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together in a field; that they continued fighting a quarter of an hour or more,
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that in the course of the fight the deced sayed he would not leave Middleton, that
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he would break his Neck and would not be hat by him; and presently afterwards
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he threw a Middleton a violent fall & he fell with his Head under him; Oept says
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that Mr. Burrows interfered and they were harted, and returned to Mr. Burrows
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