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The Informations of Fendall Rushforth< no role > of
Goldsmiths Hall, William Garrett< no role > of No 188 Wapping
Street Goldsmith, and John Pingo< no role > of Grays Inn Lane
Saint Andrew Holborn Engraver taken on Oath
before me this 25th. day of July 1789.

Who being on Oath Severally Say and first the said Fendall
Rushforth< no role > for himself says that having received intelligence from one
William Marshall< no role > that he had lately Purchased of the said William
Garrett< no role > a pair of Silver buckles which he the said William Marshall< no role >
Suspected to have Counterfeit marks on them and that at the same
time hethis Informantthe said William Marshall< no role > put the same
into his this Informants hands for inspection that Informant
on inspecting the same and thinking that the Tongues and Chapes
belonging to them had Counterfeit marks or Stamps thereon went
Yesterday Morning to the said William Garretts house with the
buckles for the purpose of making dud inquiries relative thereto
producing at the same time the buckles delivered to him by the
Said William Marshall< no role > when the said William Garrett< no role > replied
that if the said buckles had been purchased of him he had before
purchased them 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 And this Informant further says that the said William Parrett< no role >
forth with shewed to him the two paris of Silver buckles now produced
and that the tongues and chapes of three of the said two pairs of
buckles are marked or Stamped with a Counterfeit Mark or Stamp
Resembling the Mark or Stamp used by the Company of Goldsmiths
in London. And the said William Garrett< no role > for himself says that
he is very positive that the Silver buckles now produced and which