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<p n="474"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo375">Middlesex</rs>
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The Information of Ann Maguiness taken<lb></lb>
before me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15088_date54">19th. day of July 1777</rs>
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<p n="475">Who being upon Oath says that about four Years ago she come in<lb></lb>
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cated to one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-1">Thomas Probyn</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ175">Gun engraver</rs>
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a Scheme she<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
formed in her own Mind of getting Bank Notes forged, that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-2">Thomas Probyn</rs>
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bought three Copper Plates and engraved<lb></lb>
thereon Blank Bank Notes for twenty pounds fifty pounds<lb></lb>
and one hundred pounds, that the Bank Notes from which The<lb></lb>
said Blank Bank Notes were engraved were this Informant's<lb></lb>
property, that this Informant concealed the said three Copper<lb></lb>
Plates so engraved in different places until about a Year ago<lb></lb>
when she deposited them for several Months in the Possession<lb></lb>
of one Smith, who then lived in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo376">Spitalfields</rs>
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, that she received<lb></lb>
them back from Smith at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo377">the Fleet</rs>
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Prison some time last<lb></lb>
winter, that they were Sewed up in a Bundle both when she<lb></lb>
delivered them to Smith and when she had them back and<lb></lb>
that she does not believe Smith knew the Contents of the<lb></lb>
Bundle, that soon afterwards she sold the said Copper Plates so<lb></lb>
engraved for ten Guineas to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-3">James Elliott</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo378">the King's head</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo379">Little Eastcheap</rs>
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in the presence of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-4">Peter Welldon</rs>
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, that<lb></lb>
before this Time she had got a Blank Bank Note Printed<lb></lb>
off the Twenty pound plate by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-5">Robert Ryland</rs>
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in order to<lb></lb>
shew the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-6">James Elliott</rs>
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and she also got eight Blank,<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Notes printed by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-7">Robert Ryland</rs>
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from the Fifty and<lb></lb>
Plate, that the verily believes the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n475-8">Robert Ryland</rs>
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printed<lb></lb>
off some Blank Bank Notes from the said fifty pound plate<lb></lb>
unknown to this Informant and that she has since seen</p>
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