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The Informations of Fendall Rushworth< no role > of
Goldsmiths Hall and William Garratt< no role > of No. 188.
Wapping Street Goldsmith taken on Oath before
me this 24th. day of July 1789.

Who being on Oath Severally say and first the said
Fendall Rushworth< no role > for himself says that having received intelligence
from one William Marshall< no role > that he had lately purchased of the
said William Garratt< no role > a pair of Silver buckles [..]
buckles appeared to him this Informant to have a Counterfeit Stamp
or Mark thereonhe this Informantwent this morning to the said
William Garratt< no role > with the buckles for the purpose of making
due inquiries relative thereto producing at the same time the
buckles [..] delivered to him by the said William Marshall< no role >
when the said William Garratt< no role > replied that if the said buckles
had been purchased of him [..]
[..] he had before purchased the said
buckles of one Thomas Read< no role > at No 1 Ely Court Holborn that
he had been accustomed to buy buckles of the said Thomas Read< no role >
for some Years past And that he had then by him two pairs of
buckles which he had bought of the said Thomas Read< no role > about
two years ago this Informant further says that the said
William Garratt< no role > forth with [..] shewed to him the two
pairs of Silver Buckles now produced and that the tongues and Chapes of there the saidtwo
pair ofBuckles are marked or Stamped with a Counterfeit
mark or Stamp resembling the mark or Stamp used by the Company of Goldsmiths
in LondonAnd the said William Garratt< no role > for himself says
thatabouthe is very positive that the Silver Buckles now
produced and which he delivered this morning into Husband
of the said Fendall Rushworth< no role > were purchased by him
about two Years since of Thomas Read< no role > at No 1 Ely