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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and<lb></lb>
acknowledged on the Behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King<lb></lb>
touching the Death of me Thomas whose Surname is unknown<lb></lb>
at the Dwelling House of <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n1744-2">William Burrows</rs>
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Known by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1559">Sign of the Chequers</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1560">Parish of Harrow</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1561">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on Thursdaythe <rs type="date" id="LMCOIC65101_date206">eleventh<lb></lb>
Day of Mayin the twenty sixth Year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the third</rs>
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before<lb></lb>
me Edward Umfrevilleone of his Majesty's Coroners<lb></lb>
for the said County on an Inquisition then and there taken<lb></lb>
on View of the Body of the said Thomas<lb></lb>
then and there lying Dead as follow to wit</p>
<p n="1745"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n1745-1">William King</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1562">Appleton</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1563">County of Middlesex</rs>
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maketh oath that on Saturday night last Dspt was at the House of Mr. Burrows<lb></lb>
Known by the Sign of the Chequers at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1564">Appleton</rs>
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aforesaid where also was the deced<lb></lb>
Richard <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1565">Middlesex</rs>
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and several others. Says that the deced and Middleton<lb></lb>
drank together, that the deced sayed he thought Middleton would never fight him<lb></lb>
any more, to which Middleton answered he was not afraid of him that if he was had<lb></lb>
then if he meant anything of that<obscured></obscured>
neaning fight) that they presently<lb></lb>
afterwards went Out into an adjoining field where they tought together (having<lb></lb>
first stripped in the House) for a quarter of an hour or upwards; that many<lb></lb>
blows passed between then and they were both of them several times thrown down<lb></lb>
that some persons who were present then inter hosed and presented their, fight<lb></lb>
longer; Says that the deced and Middleton returned again to Mr. Burrow's house<lb></lb>
where they drank together and Dept left them there about 12 o'Clock at night<lb></lb>
Says that some little time after they had returned to the House the deced wanted to<lb></lb>
fight with Middleton again who refused.</p>
<p n="1746">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n1746-1">William King</rs>
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<p n="1747"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n1747-1">Jacob Perkins</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCOIC65101_geo1566">Appleton</rs>
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aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMCOIC65101_occ451">Labourer</rs>
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maketh oath that<lb></lb>
on Saturday night last Deponent saw the deced and <rs type="persName" id="LMCOIC65101_n1747-2">Richard Middleton</rs>
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fighting<lb></lb>
together in a field; that they continued fighting a quarter of an hour or more,<lb></lb>
that in the course of the fight the deced sayed he would not leave Middleton, that<lb></lb>
he would break his Neck and would not be hat by him; and presently afterwards<lb></lb>
he threw a Middleton a violent fall & he fell with his Head under him; Oept says<lb></lb>
that Mr. Burrows interfered and they were harted, and returned to Mr. Burrows</p>
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