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may be the Petitioner was Tried at Hicks Hall before the Commissioners
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of Oyer & Terminer for the Said County of Middx upon an Indictment
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preferred and prosecuted by the Officers of his Maties Mint whereby
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it was charged that the said
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als Withers als Towers being a
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person of Evil fame & dishonest conversation and a common dispences
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of false & Counterfeit money & Coin made of Tin lead & other mixt
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metal in the lifeness of the good & lawfull money and coin of this
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& contriving to defraud his Maties Subjects and get his
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living by undue means on the third day of June in the third year of
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his Majesties reign having in his possession Ten peices of the Said
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false & counterfeit Coins in the lifeness of so many King Williams
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Shillings Knowing the said Severall pieces to be false & Counterfeit,
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he did unlawfully & deceitfully pay away and put off one piece of
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the same to one
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for a good
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Shilling-And in proof of the Said Indictment the Said
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was
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produced and Sworn as a Witness who deposed That at the time menconed
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in the Indictment the Prisoner came to her house being the Roebuck
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& called for a Gill of Wine, for which
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two pence half penny was to be paid, That the prisoner having drant
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the Same at the barr laid down two Shillings and Soon took up one again
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She taking the other, out of which She gave him nine pence half penny
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change and the prisoner went away.
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That immediately after He was gone on Mr. Hind a Constable of
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that division came to her at the Barr and asked her if She had Sold any
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Wine, to Such a Man describing the prisoner, and She Saying She had he
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warned her of him, and advised her to look into her Till and See if any
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false money was there, which She did and found one bad Shilling: but, as
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there were other Shillings therein She could not positively Say She took that
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of the prisoner, but Mr. Hind the Constable desiring to have it, in order to
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discover who was the person that paid it there She gave it into Hinds
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hands, who went away with it. whereupon Hind the Constable being
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Sworn deposed That he had known the prisoner for some before, and having
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Several times before heard he was a person who used to put off bad money
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and Seeing him then pass by the Window of the Roebuck had a Suspicion
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he might have been doing so there, which inclined him to go in (as he
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did) and Ask Mrs. Smith if She knew the prisoner, & if
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She had Taken
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any bad money; That She examined her Till as before and took out the
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bad Shilling, and gave it him (Hind) who when he had immediately
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followed the prisoner till he saw him go into the
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a
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publick House thereabouts; and going in after him charged him with
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having just then knowingly putt off a false Shilling to Mrs. Smith
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whereupon the Prisoner denyed he had been at Mr. Smiths at all;
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but Hind insisting to the Contrary the prisoner embraced & hugged
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him and earnestly begged him to expose & ruin him;
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at which Hind not being moved the prisoner pulled out a
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