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<p n="2547"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo959">Middlesex</rs>
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To wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n2547-1">Richard Dovey</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before me this 17th. day of August 1770</p>
<p n="2548">Who being upon Oath says that about a Week ago one Mr. Constable of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo960">the<lb></lb>
Hermitage</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45015_occ321">Shoemaker</rs>
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applied to this Informant and desired him to buy<lb></lb>
for him twenty Ounces of Sterling Silver and to allay it to the Value of<lb></lb>
four Shillings and six pence P ounce and to have it flatted to a<lb></lb>
Thickness of which the said Constable brought this Informant a<lb></lb>
Measure being of the thickness of a Shillings says that from the Manner of the said Application he<lb></lb>
suspects that the said Constable means to make use of the said Silver<lb></lb>
so allayed & flattened for the purpose of coining counterfeit Shillings<lb></lb>
or Silver Money</p>
<p n="2549">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
August 17. 1770}</p>
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<p n="2551"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n2551-1">Rd Dovey</rs>
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