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The Information of
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this 17th.. Day of July 1784.
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Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday the 7th. Instant he this Informant
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Henry Morgan
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William Smith
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Chancery Lane
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Fruiterer
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John Strickland
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and Attorneys Clerk were Drinking together at the
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Queens Head in Vine Street near Chanders Street at One o'Clock, where they
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all five remainded till about 4 o'Clock. Then they all five went together to
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to
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a Fight After the Fight, they all went to the 3 Jelly
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Ditch Casters in
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Rochester
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Row, where they all remained about an hour
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Westminster
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where they played
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at Skittles about 2 hours, and then they all five returned to the Queens
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Head about 9 o'Clock, where they Drant apot of Beer, and all five set off
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at ½ past 9 o'Clock and went into
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from thence to
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and stopped
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at the
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door, but did not go in nor drink. That they then all
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five turned into Fetter Lane where said
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William Smith
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said to Informant
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"I don't know any thing of these people (meaning Morgan and Dixon) we will
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go and have some Berrby ourselves". That Morgan and Dixon then Rather
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dropped behind and said
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said "We will go to the Pilgrim".
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That they three viz this Informant
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went along Fetter Lane and into Holborn from which time
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Informant missed Dixon and Morgan. That soon after being in the Pilgrim the
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said
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William Smith
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observed that there were the other two (meaning Morgan
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and Dixon) come in", but Informant did not see themThat Informant, said
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William Smith
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and Strickland, remained in said House from ¼ after 12 when
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they went in, to 4 o'Clock, when they left the PilgrimThat about One o'Clock
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this Information fell a sleep, at which time Dixon was not in said house to this
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Informat's knowledgebut between the hours of 3 and 4 o'Clock when this
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Informant awoke Dixon was there; That about 4 o'Clock Informant Dixon
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Strickland and
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William Smith
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went across Holborn into the Long Fields and
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returned into
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Covent Garden
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. That about 6 o'Clock they all came to the Queens
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