may be the Petitioner was Tried at Hicks Hall before the Commissioners
of Oyer & Terminer for the Said County of Middx upon an Indictment
preferred and prosecuted by the Officers of his Maties Mint whereby
it was charged that the said Thomas Evans< no role > als Withers als Towers being a
person of Evil fame & dishonest conversation and a common dispences
of false & Counterfeit money & Coin made of Tin lead & other mixt
metal in the lifeness of the good & lawfull money and coin of this
Kingdom & contriving to defraud his Maties Subjects and get his
living by undue means on the third day of June in the third year of
his Majesties reign having in his possession Ten peices of the Said
false & counterfeit Coins in the lifeness of so many King Williams
Shillings Knowing the said Severall pieces to be false & Counterfeit,
he did unlawfully & deceitfully pay away and put off one piece of
the same to one Elizabeth Smith< no role > the Wife of Thomas Smith< no role > for a good
Shilling-And in proof of the Said Indictment the Said Elizabeth Smith< no role > was
produced and Sworn as a Witness who deposed That at the time menconed
in the Indictment the Prisoner came to her house being the Roebuck
Tavern in Bow Street Covent Garden & called for a Gill of Wine, for which
two pence half penny was to be paid, That the prisoner having drant
the Same at the barr laid down two Shillings and Soon took up one again
She taking the other, out of which She gave him nine pence half penny
change and the prisoner went away.

That immediately after He was gone on Mr. Hind a Constable of
that division came to her at the Barr and asked her if She had Sold any
Wine, to Such a Man describing the prisoner, and She Saying She had he
warned her of him, and advised her to look into her Till and See if any
false money was there, which She did and found one bad Shilling: but, as
there were other Shillings therein She could not positively Say She took that
of the prisoner, but Mr. Hind the Constable desiring to have it, in order to
discover who was the person that paid it there She gave it into Hinds
hands, who went away with it. whereupon Hind the Constable being
Sworn deposed That he had known the prisoner for some before, and having
Several times before heard he was a person who used to put off bad money
and Seeing him then pass by the Window of the Roebuck had a Suspicion
he might have been doing so there, which inclined him to go in (as he
did) and Ask Mrs. Smith if She knew the prisoner, & if [..] She had Taken
any bad money; That She examined her Till as before and took out the
bad Shilling, and gave it him (Hind) who when he had immediately
followed the prisoner till he saw him go into the Green Dragon a
publick House thereabouts; and going in after him charged him with
having just then knowingly putt off a false Shilling to Mrs. Smith
whereupon the Prisoner denyed he had been at Mr. Smiths at all;
but Hind insisting to the Contrary the prisoner embraced & hugged
him and earnestly begged him to expose & ruin him;
at which Hind not being moved the prisoner pulled out a