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The Information of Ann Maguiness taken
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before me this
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19th. day of July 1777
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Who being upon Oath says that about four Years ago she come in
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Thomas Probyn
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Gun engraver
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a Scheme she
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formed in her own Mind of getting Bank Notes forged, that the
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Thomas Probyn
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bought three Copper Plates and engraved
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thereon Blank Bank Notes for twenty pounds fifty pounds
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and one hundred pounds, that the Bank Notes from which The
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said Blank Bank Notes were engraved were this Informant's
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property, that this Informant concealed the said three Copper
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Plates so engraved in different places until about a Year ago
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when she deposited them for several Months in the Possession
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of one Smith, who then lived in
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Spitalfields
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, that she received
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them back from Smith at
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the Fleet
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Prison some time last
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winter, that they were Sewed up in a Bundle both when she
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delivered them to Smith and when she had them back and
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that she does not believe Smith knew the Contents of the
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Bundle, that soon afterwards she sold the said Copper Plates so
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engraved for ten Guineas to
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James Elliott
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the King's head
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Little Eastcheap
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in the presence of
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Peter Welldon
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, that
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before this Time she had got a Blank Bank Note Printed
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off the Twenty pound plate by
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Robert Ryland
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in order to
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shew the said
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James Elliott
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and she also got eight Blank,
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Notes printed by the said
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from the Fifty and
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Plate, that the verily believes the said
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Robert Ryland
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printed
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off some Blank Bank Notes from the said fifty pound plate
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unknown to this Informant and that she has since seen
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