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<p n="2119"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1325">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2119-1">Richard Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2119-2">William Spittle</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2119-3">John Clark</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2119-4">Percival Philips</rs>
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-taken<lb></lb>
before me this 17th.. day of November 1781.</p>
<p n="2120">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-1">Richard Jones</rs>
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says that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-2">Robert Cooper</rs>
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now present; that<lb></lb>
he recommended said Cooper to take a House called "Park<lb></lb>
House" in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1326">Little Chelsea</rs>
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that a Copper which hath been<lb></lb>
shewn to him by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-3">John Clark</rs>
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he sold to him about<lb></lb>
a fortnight ago-that a Coining Press, & Cutting Press<lb></lb>
which have been shewn to him by said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-4">John Clark</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
likewise sold to said Cooper about four or five Months<lb></lb>
ago; as well as some Dies for the purpose of coming<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-5">William Spittle</rs>
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says that a Bill of Parcels<lb></lb>
now shewn to him was made by him for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-6">Robert<lb></lb>
Cooper</rs>
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for work done for him by this Informant, as<lb></lb>
mentioned in the said Bill of Parcels And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-7">John<lb></lb>
Clark</rs>
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for himself says that on Friday last was sevenight, he found<lb></lb>
the Bill of Parcels now produced in a Burean locked up in<lb></lb>
the aforesaid House called "Park House" together with four<lb></lb>
Presses, a Quantity of Waste Copper and three Dies for<lb></lb>
stamping the Impressions of Half pence, in other parts of<lb></lb>
said house. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2120-8">Percival Philips</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
in the Cellar of said house he found about two Dozen<lb></lb>
of Counterfeit Half pence.</p>
<p n="2121">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
17th. day of Novemr 1781.}</p>
<p n="2122"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2122-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="2123"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2123-1">Richd Jones</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2123-2">William Spittle</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2123-3">John Clark</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2123-4">Percival Phillips</rs>
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