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The Information of Elizabeth Foot< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. of No.
38 in Seacoat Lane London Spinster
taken before me this 17th. day of Novemr.
1781.

Who being on Oath says that she has lived as a Servant
with a Person now present who calls himself Robert
Cooper
< no role > about six Weeks in a House called "Park House"
at Little Chelsea . That during that time he hath at various
times brought into his said House divers Sheets of Copper.
That she by the direction of said Robert Cooper< no role > her
Master hath assisted two Men (employed likewise by him)
in coming and Counterfeiting Half pence in the Cellar
of his said House, and in which Cellar the Presses and
Tools were found by Mr. Clark. That this Informant always
understood that the said Cooper had a Partner in the
coming of Halfpence. That the said Cooper about once
a Week used to fetch away his Share of the Halfpence
that were coined in a Cart, as well as the waste
Copper. That her said Master at one time desired this
Informant to be very careful in putting in the Blanks
of round Copper between the Dies to receive the Impression.
That the Person whom she understood to be Cooper's Partner
was a Mr. Brown.

Sworn before me this
17th. day of Novemr. 1781.}

Thos: Gilbert< no role > .

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