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to Wit}
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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of
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Thomas
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taken and made before me
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William
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Esqr
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. One of His Majesty's
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Justices of the
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Peace
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in and for the said County this
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13th. day of March 1787
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.
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Who saith that about two Months ago he was employed by his Fellow
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Prisoner
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Thomas Taylor
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to Assist him in making and Counterfeiting the
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Current Copper Coin of this Realm called Halfpence and which this
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Examinant and the said
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Thomas Taylor
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hath at different times Since
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continued to do in a Cellar in the House of the said
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Thomas Taylor
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Situate in
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Peter Street
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in the Parish of
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Saint John Clerkenwell
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in the said
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County and where a Stamping Press with dyes & other Impliments were
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fixed for that purpose and Examinant was paid by the said
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at the Rate of Eight pence for every piece madeThis
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Examinant further saith that the said
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Thomas Taylor
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Pulled up
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the Fly and this Examinant put in And that the said
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Thos. Taylor
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and this Examinant were at work in making and Counterfeiting
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the said Copper Halfpence at the time the Officers came to the
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House but hearing a Noise they left off and endeavoured to
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get away and Conceal themselves That the Counterfeit Copper
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Halfpence found in the said Cellar
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by the Officers were made
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by this Examinant and the said
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Thomas Taylor
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as were also the
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Paper parcel of Halfpence found in the said
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Thomas Taylor
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's Room up
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one pair of Stairs And this Examinant lastly saith that
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Thomas
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Worlings
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and
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Mary Worlings
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were not in any manner Concern'd
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in making and Counterfeiting the said Current
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Counterfeit
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Copper Half pence and that he verily beleives the same was done
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without the Privity or knowledge of the said
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Thos
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. &
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Mary Worlings
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Taken and made before
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Me the Day and Year above
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Written.}
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W Blackborow
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Thos Harcourt
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S. V.
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