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