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This Examinant Voluntarity confesseth and Saith that between
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four and five o'Clock in the Morning of Wednesday last the seventh
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Instant, he went to the House of the Mother of
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now present situate in Vine Street in the Parish of Stint Martin
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in the Fields, where he this Examinant Knocked with his hand
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against the Window Shutters, and in a few Minutes the said
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now present came to him
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That the said Dixon, Smith and this Examinant, took a Walk
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into the Fields behind
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seven or right o'Clock the same Morning to the Queens Head in
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Chandes Street, where they breakfasted together on Rolls buttered
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and Beer, and remained therein till near five o'Clock in the Afternoon,
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near eight o'clock and returned together to the Queens Head
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aforesaid about nine o'Clock, where they had some Beer, Staid
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about half an hour, and then left the said House together intending
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to Rob. That the said Dixon, Smith and this Examinant, went towards
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Lincolus Inn Fields, where they continued in the Streets in that
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Neighbourhood till past twelve o'Clock, when said
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