The Examinacon of Thomas Fox< no role > souldier the death of Nathaniel
Stealing< no role > deceased taken by Thomas Gardiner< no role > Esqr [..] Francis Hawkins< no role >
D.D. Justices of the peace of the [..] of the Tower of London.

Memorand. that the two and twentieth day of February in the
second year of the Riegn of or Sobraeon Lord & Lady King
William & Queen Mary, Annogr Dm. 1680. Thomas Fox< no role > Soulders
in Captain Newton his Company & belonging to Colonel
Cutts his Regiment of foot, being taken & borought before
us & Examined touching the death of Nathaniel Heading< no role > late
a Soulders in the said Captain Newton his Company, belonging
to the said Regiment, he the said Thomas Fox< no role > made Volunter
by confession as followrth, vizt. the on Wednesday the nineteenth
of February Instant, they, the said Thomas Fox< no role > & Nathaniel
Heading< no role > win together of the Rose & Crown in back lane
at the end of Blew-gatefield, when they came into the company
of a tall frown woman, whose name, he saith he knows not
in light Colourd Cloaths of silk aged about 23 - & that
about seaven a clock in the Evening of the same day, they the
said Thoms Fox< no role > , Nathaniel Heading & the woman aforesaid
went from the Ross & crown with intent to go to the Marick
house in Stepney, but by the way as they went some woods past
between them touching the said woman, when upon
Quarrell arose, [..] & the said Thomas Fox< no role > wounded the
said Nathaniel Heading in the fair & head, to that he fill
upon the ground, & when he was down, the said Thomas Fox< no role >
Cutt the Cherch of the said Nathaniel Heading< no role > & afterwards
Striped him & [..] the body into a ditch & ye endeavoured
to cobra it with Earth, in the place when the body was since
found: that he left the Crevat about his neck, but Carried
his Cloaths & hid them in a house at cock hill that he
afterwards went to the riber of Thames & Washed his hands
& fair & then returnd to his Quarters between the hours