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<p n="1592">may be the Petitioner was Tried at Hicks Hall before the Commissioners<lb></lb>
of Oyer & Terminer for the Said County of Middx upon an Indictment<lb></lb>
preferred and prosecuted by the Officers of his Maties Mint whereby<lb></lb>
it was charged that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1592-1">Thomas Evans</rs>
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als Withers als Towers being a<lb></lb>
person of Evil fame & dishonest conversation and a common dispences<lb></lb>
of false & Counterfeit money & Coin made of Tin lead & other mixt<lb></lb>
metal in the lifeness of the good & lawfull money and coin of this<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1684">Kingdom</rs>
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& contriving to defraud his Maties Subjects and get his<lb></lb>
living by undue means on the third day of June in the third year of<lb></lb>
his Majesties reign having in his possession Ten peices of the Said<lb></lb>
false & counterfeit Coins in the lifeness of so many King Williams<lb></lb>
Shillings Knowing the said Severall pieces to be false & Counterfeit,<lb></lb>
he did unlawfully & deceitfully pay away and put off one piece of<lb></lb>
the same to one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1592-2">Elizabeth Smith</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ2323">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1592-3">Thomas Smith</rs>
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for a good<lb></lb>
Shilling-And in proof of the Said Indictment the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n1592-4">Elizabeth Smith</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
produced and Sworn as a Witness who deposed That at the time menconed<lb></lb>
in the Indictment the Prisoner came to her house being the Roebuck<lb></lb>
Tavern in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1685">Bow Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1686">Covent Garden</rs>
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& called for a Gill of Wine, for which<lb></lb>
two pence half penny was to be paid, That the prisoner having drant<lb></lb>
the Same at the barr laid down two Shillings and Soon took up one again<lb></lb>
She taking the other, out of which She gave him nine pence half penny<lb></lb>
change and the prisoner went away.</p>
<p n="1593">That immediately after He was gone on Mr. Hind a Constable of<lb></lb>
that division came to her at the Barr and asked her if She had Sold any<lb></lb>
Wine, to Such a Man describing the prisoner, and She Saying She had he<lb></lb>
warned her of him, and advised her to look into her Till and See if any<lb></lb>
false money was there, which She did and found one bad Shilling: but, as<lb></lb>
there were other Shillings therein She could not positively Say She took that<lb></lb>
of the prisoner, but Mr. Hind the Constable desiring to have it, in order to<lb></lb>
discover who was the person that paid it there She gave it into Hinds<lb></lb>
hands, who went away with it. whereupon Hind the Constable being<lb></lb>
Sworn deposed That he had known the prisoner for some before, and having<lb></lb>
Several times before heard he was a person who used to put off bad money<lb></lb>
and Seeing him then pass by the Window of the Roebuck had a Suspicion<lb></lb>
he might have been doing so there, which inclined him to go in (as he<lb></lb>
did) and Ask Mrs. Smith if She knew the prisoner, & if<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
She had Taken<lb></lb>
any bad money; That She examined her Till as before and took out the<lb></lb>
bad Shilling, and gave it him (Hind) who when he had immediately<lb></lb>
followed the prisoner till he saw him go into the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1687">Green Dragon</rs>
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a<lb></lb>
publick House thereabouts; and going in after him charged him with<lb></lb>
having just then knowingly putt off a false Shilling to Mrs. Smith<lb></lb>
whereupon the Prisoner denyed he had been at Mr. Smiths at all;<lb></lb>
but Hind insisting to the Contrary the prisoner embraced & hugged<lb></lb>
him and earnestly begged him to expose & ruin him;<lb></lb>
at which Hind not being moved the prisoner pulled out a</p>
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