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<p n="547">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n547-1">Robert Waldrom</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15007_geo270">White Chapel</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15007_occ146">Butcher</rs>
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taken upon Oath this 5th: day of June 1696</p>
<p n="548">Whoe saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n548-1">Henry Chawner</rs>
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now Convicted for High Treason in Counterfitting money bought a<lb></lb>
Press to Counterfit the Currant Coyne of this Kingdome of<lb></lb>
One Bagley whoe lives in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15007_geo271">Hounsditch</rs>
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, and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
paid £25<lb></lb>
for makeing the Press, And that the said Chawner and One<lb></lb>
Smith als Ray did use the said Mill to Counterfit money<lb></lb>
And that the said Bagley did Sell Two Presser to the said<lb></lb>
Smith als Ray, aboute a yeare Since, for Thirty or Forty<lb></lb>
pounds, and that the said Bagley did gate unto the said<lb></lb>
Chawner and Smith Twenty Shillings in Broade money<lb></lb>
for Eight & Twenty Shillings of Counterfit money which<lb></lb>
was made with the said Mills, And that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n548-2">Thomas Walley</rs>
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now in<lb></lb>
Custody did tell this Informt. Aboute foure Moneths since<lb></lb>
that he<del>did</del>
third William Harey now also in Custody did<lb></lb>
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make A Hundred pounds a Weeke of Counterfit money<lb></lb>
for one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n548-3">Joseph Gregory</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15007_occ147">Butcher</rs>
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, And that the said Gregory<lb></lb>
did usually pay the same into the Exchequer, And that<lb></lb>
Walley did tell this Informt. that if they could make £500<lb></lb>
a weeke the said Gregory would take it of them and pay<lb></lb>
the same unto the Exchequer And that the said Walley did also<lb></lb>
tell this Informt. that he did<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Change Severall Hundred pounds of Counterfit<lb></lb>
money with One Dennis or Brewers Clerke whoe lives<lb></lb>
in Virginia Streete and gave him Eight & Twenty<lb></lb>
Shillings for Twenty Shillings in Good money, And that<lb></lb>
One <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n548-4">John Connell</rs>
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and the said Chawner did Come to this<lb></lb>
Informts Father and told him that they was come to<lb></lb>
Apprhend this Informt for High Treason for Counterfitting money And<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
said that if he would give<lb></lb>
them Forty pounds they would<del>make</del>
not prossecute him<lb></lb>
and this Informts. Father did give them Forty pounds, and they<lb></lb>
did never prossecute this Informt. for the said Treason & they<lb></lb>
reced Forty pounds mone Since they Recd the First forty pounds some of this<lb></lb>
Informt. & the Rest of his Father</p>
<p n="549">Capt cor me<lb></lb>
Kovell Recordr.</p>
<p n="550"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15007_n550-1">Robert<lb></lb>
Waldrom</rs>
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