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The Informacon of
Ailce Atkins< no role >
Widdow
taken upon Oath the
10th. day of Aprill 1695
This Informant Saith upon her Oath that She became acquainted about two or
three Yeares aged with one John Pritchard< no role >
Living in
Queens Street
in ye prise of St
Gyles in ye fields
, who brought her in Company of one John & Poole< no role >
, to Learne
her the Casting and makeing Counter feit Money
for which She was to give ye Sd
Poole five [..] Guineas, and accordingly gave him three [..] , but the Sd Poole never
Sheweing her but three times She never paid him ye other two Guineas as was
agreed, and further Saith, that She hath Severall times Seen the Said John Poole< no role >
Cash and Coine Severall pcells of Money in imitacon of ye Currt. Money of this
Realme in
Dum & ally
near ye Coale Yard
in ye prise of St Gyles
aforesd, and
further Saith that the Counterfeit Money now Shewed unto her taken in ye Custody
of ye Sd Poole, is the Same Sorts of Money as She hath Seen ye Sd Poole make
and taught her thes Informt. to make, and hath Sold the SdMoneyPoole about
[..] Eight pound of ye Sd Counterfeit Money for which She used to receive
five and twenty Shillings good Money for five and thirty Shillings of ye Sd
Counter feit, and the Silver of which She thes Informt. made the Sd Counter feit
Money She bought of ye Sd Poole giving him five Shillings ye onnce being
Clippings in ye Curle unmelted, and taught her to put into every onnce an Old
Copper farthing, and further Saith that She has had Severall prells of Counter feit
Money from ye Sd Pritchard, Some times every day in ye weeck, and gave him a Guinea for
thirty Shillings in Counter feit Money, and Changed with him fifteen Guineas in one
weecke So
Jurat die & Anno Suprd
coram me
Ger. Ireton< no role >
The make [mark] of
Ailce Atkins< no role >
Ailce Atkins< no role >
bound to prsecute John Poole< no role >
& John Pritchard< no role >
in£40: