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<p n="451"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo498">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n451-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Taylor</rs>
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taken and made before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n451-2">Wm. Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ184">Esqr</rs>
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. One of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ185">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date84">13th. day of March 1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="452">Who saith that he Rents the House <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo499">No 13</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo500">Peter Street</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo501">Saint John Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said County that he let the Ground floor<lb></lb>
to his fellow Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-14">Thomas Workings</rs>
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and his Wife about a fortnight since.<lb></lb>
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This Examinant also let the Garrett out of one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-1">Thomas Vialls</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and only Retained the Cellar and One pair of Stairs Room to his own Use.<lb></lb>
That.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about two Months ago Examinant fixed in the Cellar the<lb></lb>
Stamping Press and other Impliments found by the Officers in the said<lb></lb>
Cellar and hath Several times since with the Assistance of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Harcourt</rs>
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made and Counterfeited the Current Copper Coin of this<lb></lb>
Realm called Halfpence This Examinant also further saith that<lb></lb>
himself and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-3">Thomas Harcourt</rs>
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were in the said Cellar<lb></lb>
at the time the Officers came into his said House and were making<lb></lb>
preperation for the Counterfeiting the said Copper halfpence as<lb></lb>
aforesaid but hearing the Noise of the Officers coming in the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-4">Thomas Harcourt</rs>
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and Examinant endeavoured to get away and<lb></lb>
Conceal themselves This Examinant also saith that himself &<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-5">Thomas Harcourt</rs>
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had on that Day been at Work in making<lb></lb>
and Counterfeiting the said Copper Halfpence And<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that the<lb></lb>
Paper Parcel of Counterfeit Halfpence found in a Drawer in this<lb></lb>
Examinants Room were also made and Counterfeited by him &<lb></lb>
the said Thomas Harcourt And this Examinant further saith<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-7">Thomas Worlings</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n452-8">Mary Worlings</rs>
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were<lb></lb>
not in any manner concerned in making and Counterfeiting<lb></lb>
the said Copper Halfpence and verily beleives the same was<lb></lb>
done without their knowledge or Privity.</p>
<p n="453">Taken and made before me<lb></lb>
the Day and Year above Written}</p>
<p n="454">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="455"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n455-1">Thos Taylor</rs>
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</p>
<p n="456">S.V.</p>
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