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<p n="2666"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1812">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
The Examination and Voluntary Confession<lb></lb>
o <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2666-1">Henry Morgan</rs>
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taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2666-2">William<lb></lb>
Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ626">Esquire</rs>
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one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45028_occ627">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1813">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this 12th. Day of July 1784.</p>
<p n="2667">This Examinant Voluntarity confesseth and Saith that between<lb></lb>
four and five o'Clock in the Morning of Wednesday last the seventh<lb></lb>
Instant, he went to the House of the Mother of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2667-1">Alexander Dixon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now present situate in Vine Street in the Parish of Stint Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields, where he this Examinant Knocked with his hand<lb></lb>
against the Window Shutters, and in a few Minutes the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2667-2">Alexander Dixon</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2667-3">James Smith</rs>
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now present came to him<lb></lb>
That the said Dixon, Smith and this Examinant, took a Walk<lb></lb>
into the Fields behind <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1814">Queen Square</rs>
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, and returned about<lb></lb>
seven or right o'Clock the same Morning to the Queens Head in<lb></lb>
Chandes Street, where they breakfasted together on Rolls buttered<lb></lb>
and Beer, and remained therein till near five o'Clock in the Afternoon,<lb></lb>
when they went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1815">Tothill Fields</rs>
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to see a Fight. That the said<lb></lb>
Dixon Smith and this Examinant continued in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo1816">Tothill Fields</rs>
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till<lb></lb>
near eight o'clock and returned together to the Queens Head<lb></lb>
aforesaid about nine o'Clock, where they had some Beer, Staid<lb></lb>
about half an hour, and then left the said House together intending<lb></lb>
to Rob. That the said Dixon, Smith and this Examinant, went towards<lb></lb>
Lincolus Inn Fields, where they continued in the Streets in that<lb></lb>
Neighbourhood till past twelve o'Clock, when said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n2667-4">James Smith</rs>
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