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<p n="2187"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1470">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2187-1">James Smith</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this 17th.. Day of July 1784.</p>
<p n="2188">Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday the 7th. Instant he this Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-1">Alexander Dixon</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-2">Henry Morgan</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-3">William Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1471">Chancery Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ518">Fruiterer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-4">John Strickland</rs>
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and Attorneys Clerk were Drinking together at the<lb></lb>
Queens Head in Vine Street near Chanders Street at One o'Clock, where they<lb></lb>
all five remainded till about 4 o'Clock. Then they all five went together to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1472">Tothill Fields</rs>
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to<obscured></obscured>
a Fight After the Fight, they all went to the 3 Jelly<lb></lb>
Ditch Casters in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1473">Rochester</rs>
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Row, where they all remained about an hour<lb></lb>
That they then all went to a Public house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1474">Westminster</rs>
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where they played<lb></lb>
at Skittles about 2 hours, and then they all five returned to the Queens<lb></lb>
Head about 9 o'Clock, where they Drant apot of Beer, and all five set off<lb></lb>
at ½ past 9 o'Clock and went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1475">the Strand</rs>
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from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1476">Temple Bar</rs>
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and stopped<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1477">Coach and Horses</rs>
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door, but did not go in nor drink. That they then all<lb></lb>
five turned into Fetter Lane where said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-5">William Smith</rs>
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said to Informant<lb></lb>
"I don't know any thing of these people (meaning Morgan and Dixon) we will<lb></lb>
go and have some Berrby ourselves". That Morgan and Dixon then Rather<lb></lb>
dropped behind and said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-6">William Smith</rs>
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said "We will go to the Pilgrim".<lb></lb>
That they three viz this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-7">William Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-8">John Strickland</rs>
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went along Fetter Lane and into Holborn from which time<lb></lb>
Informant missed Dixon and Morgan. That soon after being in the Pilgrim the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-9">William Smith</rs>
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observed that there were the other two (meaning Morgan<lb></lb>
and Dixon) come in", but Informant did not see themThat Informant, said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-10">William Smith</rs>
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and Strickland, remained in said House from ¼ after 12 when<lb></lb>
they went in, to 4 o'Clock, when they left the PilgrimThat about One o'Clock<lb></lb>
this Information fell a sleep, at which time Dixon was not in said house to this<lb></lb>
Informat's knowledgebut between the hours of 3 and 4 o'Clock when this<lb></lb>
Informant awoke Dixon was there; That about 4 o'Clock Informant Dixon<lb></lb>
Strickland and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2188-11">William Smith</rs>
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went across Holborn into the Long Fields and<lb></lb>
returned into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1478">Covent Garden</rs>
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. That about 6 o'Clock they all came to the Queens</p>
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