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The Information of
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taken before me this
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13th. day of Novemr 1780
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for
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himself says that on the 7th day of November instant he went in Company
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and other Officers to search a
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house near
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in the
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commonly called
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Jack Keteks
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CommonThat in entering the Yard of said House he saw
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Shutting the Door
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Noise in the inside he attempted to break open the Door but finding
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he could not easily break open the same he threw up the Saft of the
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and get in That on entering the Room he saw the said
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standing by the fire and on Questioning her why she
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locked the Door she answered "She did it because she did not know
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what they wanted" - That after searching some time and finding at Hole
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in the Ground he went down into the same and there found a Press for
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cutting out & a large Press with Dies fixed for striking the impression of
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Farthings as also a Quantity of Counterfeit Farthings now produced
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(Completely finished) which were lying round the said Press and a Candle
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lighted at each Press, a Quantity of Copper, Ceril, Dyes and all other
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Implements for making coining and counterfeiting the Copper Money
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of this Realm called Half pence and FarthingsThe said
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Moses Murrans
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for himself says that he searched the said House and found under a Board
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in the Floor near the Fire Place three Pound sworth of Counterfeit Half pence
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That in searching further he pulled up the Bottom step of the
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first Flight of Stairs where he found a Hole which led into a Hollow
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