Middlesex To wit

The Information of Richard Dovey< no role > taken
before me this 17th. day of August 1770

Who being upon Oath says that about a Week ago one Mr. Constable of the
Hermitage a Shoemaker applied to this Informant and desired him to buy
for him twenty Ounces of Sterling Silver and to allay it to the Value of
four Shillings and six pence P ounce and to have it flatted to a
Thickness of which the said Constable brought this Informant a
Measure being of the thickness of a Shillings says that from the Manner of the said Application he
suspects that the said Constable means to make use of the said Silver
so allayed & flattened for the purpose of coining counterfeit Shillings
or Silver Money

Sworn before me
August 17. 1770}

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Rd Dovey< no role >