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<p n="1352"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo665">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1352-1">Robert Chambers</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ423">Penssioner</rs>
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taken before as this 16th. day<lb></lb>
of July 1765</p>
<p n="1353">Who being upon Oath says that about two Months agoe being the<lb></lb>
day preceding the Night that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1353-1">James Knight</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45009_occ424">Publican</rs>
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was Murdred<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo666">the Cow & Calves</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo667">Chelsea</rs>
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he this Informant and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1353-2">Joseph Gould</rs>
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now present having had a half Guinea given then by mistake<lb></lb>
instead of a six Pence, they agreed to divide ten Shillings of it between them<lb></lb>
and went together to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo668">White Hart</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo669">Earls Court</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
they had a Biscuit and two Potts of Beer & charged said half<lb></lb>
Guinea, then went to another Ale huse in the Road and had a<lb></lb>
Pott of Beer, then went together to the Cow and Calves and drank<lb></lb>
where the Person who formerly kept <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo670">the red Lyon</rs>
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was offering<lb></lb>
Crass Cocks to Sale to Shelmerdine the Landlord, says they then<lb></lb>
went back to Mrs. Mc. Daniel and got two men to do their<lb></lb>
Patrole Duty for then, that they there met with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45009_n1353-4">Jonathan Stephens</rs>
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also now Present, says they all drank together in said Hosue till about<lb></lb>
ten o' Clock or a little after, and then said Stephens taking this<lb></lb>
Informant's Stick from him they went out of said House together<lb></lb>
and Walked along the Road towards the Cow and Calves aforesaid<lb></lb>
said Stephens and Gold being at a distance before this Informant<lb></lb>
and says that as soon as sd. Stephens and Gould got near to the<lb></lb>
door of the Cow and Calves aforesaid he this Informt. heard a<lb></lb>
Pistol Fire and then hasting upto said Stephens and Gold saw<lb></lb>
a Man very near them Gastring & Staggering & who presently<lb></lb>
fell as Dead says be there repremanded them for being there<lb></lb>
or bringing him there & observing that the Man was killed<lb></lb>
& they shou'd be tried for their lives to which they answered that<lb></lb>
it was nothing to him he had done nothing, says they then<lb></lb>
went round by the Queens Elen and that Gold and he went into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45009_geo671">the black Lyon</rs>
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where they drank for an hour or upwards but<lb></lb>
that Stephens refused to go in with them says that when<lb></lb>
they left Mc. Daniel as aforesaid said Gould<lb></lb>
and</p>
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