Middlesex to wit

The Information of James Smith< no role > taken before me
this 17th.. Day of July 1784.

Who being on Oath says that on Wednesday the 7th. Instant he this Informant
Alexander Dixon< no role > . Henry Morgan< no role > This name instance is in set 1538. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . , William Smith< no role > of Chancery Lane Fruiterer
and John Strickland< no role > and Attorneys Clerk were Drinking together at the
Queens Head in Vine Street near Chanders Street at One o'Clock, where they
all five remainded till about 4 o'Clock. Then they all five went together to
Tothill Fields to [..] a Fight After the Fight, they all went to the 3 Jelly
Ditch Casters in Rochester Row, where they all remained about an hour
That they then all went to a Public house in Westminster where they played
at Skittles about 2 hours, and then they all five returned to the Queens
Head about 9 o'Clock, where they Drant apot of Beer, and all five set off
at ½ past 9 o'Clock and went into the Strand from thence to Temple Bar and stopped
at the Coach and Horses door, but did not go in nor drink. That they then all
five turned into Fetter Lane where said William Smith< no role > said to Informant
"I don't know any thing of these people (meaning Morgan and Dixon) we will
go and have some Berrby ourselves". That Morgan and Dixon then Rather
dropped behind and said William Smith< no role > said "We will go to the Pilgrim".
That they three viz this Informant William Smith< no role > and John Strickland< no role > went along Fetter Lane and into Holborn from which time
Informant missed Dixon and Morgan. That soon after being in the Pilgrim the
said William Smith< no role > observed that there were the other two (meaning Morgan
and Dixon) come in", but Informant did not see themThat Informant, said
William Smith< no role > and Strickland, remained in said House from ¼ after 12 when
they went in, to 4 o'Clock, when they left the PilgrimThat about One o'Clock
this Information fell a sleep, at which time Dixon was not in said house to this
Informat's knowledgebut between the hours of 3 and 4 o'Clock when this
Informant awoke Dixon was there; That about 4 o'Clock Informant Dixon
Strickland and William Smith< no role > went across Holborn into the Long Fields and
returned into Covent Garden . That about 6 o'Clock they all came to the Queens