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The last night they being all watchmen of St Peter's of Mancroft Ward and had received their charge from the constables to see about the ward that night as they were a-going in the Cockey Lane there they found a man, one Edmund Randall of St Lawrence parish, who was very much overtaken with drink and they got and conducted him homewards and at the end of the Goat Lane, Randall seeing the watch of West Wymer ward with the constable, Nicholas Bun, Charles Sheringham, Nicholas Read their petty [constable], William Crew, Thomas Horne, John Allen, John Hooper, Edward Chambers, Thomas Fidaman, alehouse-keepers, with a shoemaker a new-elected constable and others, Randall fell abusing of them and struck George Wen, one of the said deponents, on the face, and broke his pipe which he had in his mouth. And the deponents would have set Randall in the stocks for his rudeness. And the constables of West Wymer ward came to them and rescued Randall from them and came into St Peter's of Mancroft Ward and took the deponent Thomas Browne as he was removing the ward pin and carried him off to St Margaret's parish and there set him in the stocks. And they further say they were all very much in drink and did assault and beat them, and wounded the deponent Charles Wen, and that they were about fourteen persons of them in number.