Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), January 1755, trial of John Armstrong John, otherwise Thomas Welch (t17550116-33).

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[Thomas Welch, aka John Welch, was found guilty of violent assault on 16 January 1755 and sentenced to death]

[Thomas Welch] I have no more to say than what I am going to tell you; I met the evidence [John Courtney] at the Shepherd and dog below Tower-hill, with three or four men along with him; he had on a new jacket and a new pair of Trousers, singing very merrily. He asked me if I would drink? I said, I did not care if I did. He said, he was just come home from the West-Indies, and that he had got thirty pounds to receive in Broad-street […] I don't know whether he is a bad or a good man. 

excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), January 1755, trial of John Armstrong John, otherwise Thomas Welch (t17550116-33).' (118 words)

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