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<p n="457"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo502">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n457-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Harcourt</rs>
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taken and made before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n457-2">William<lb></lb>
Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ186">Esqr</rs>
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. One of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ187">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date85">13th. day of March 1787</rs>
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<p n="458">Who saith that about two Months ago he was employed by his Fellow<lb></lb>
Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-1">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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to Assist him in making and Counterfeiting the<lb></lb>
Current Copper Coin of this Realm called Halfpence and which this<lb></lb>
Examinant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-2">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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hath at different times Since<lb></lb>
continued to do in a Cellar in the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-3">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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Situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo503">Peter Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo504">Saint John Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County and where a Stamping Press with dyes & other Impliments were<lb></lb>
fixed for that purpose and Examinant was paid by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-4">Thomas<lb></lb>
Taylor</rs>
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at the Rate of Eight pence for every piece madeThis<lb></lb>
Examinant further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-5">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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Pulled up<lb></lb>
the Fly and this Examinant put in And that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-78">Thos. Taylor</rs>
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and this Examinant were at work in making and Counterfeiting<lb></lb>
the said Copper Halfpence at the time the Officers came to the<lb></lb>
House but hearing a Noise they left off and endeavoured to<lb></lb>
get away and Conceal themselves That the Counterfeit Copper<lb></lb>
Halfpence found in the said Cellar<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
by the Officers were made<lb></lb>
by this Examinant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-6">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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as were also the<lb></lb>
Paper parcel of Halfpence found in the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-7">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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's Room up<lb></lb>
one pair of Stairs And this Examinant lastly saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-8">Thomas<lb></lb>
Worlings</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-9">Mary Worlings</rs>
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were not in any manner Concern'd<lb></lb>
in making and Counterfeiting the said Current<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Counterfeit<lb></lb>
Copper Half pence and that he verily beleives the same was done<lb></lb>
without the Privity or knowledge of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-85">Thos</rs>
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. & <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n458-10">Mary Worlings</rs>
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<p n="459">Taken and made before<lb></lb>
Me the Day and Year above<lb></lb>
Written.}</p>
<p n="460">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="461"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n461-1">Thos Harcourt</rs>
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<p n="462">S. V.</p>
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