C - G - proceedingsdefend of Westminster was tried for High-Treason, in coining and making of False and Counterfeit Groats, called, King Charles the Second's Groats, which were found in his Lodging at St. James's, besides several Stamps, and that he was seen to make the said Groats publickly . The Prisoner told the Witness that he sold them at the Exchange for Counters, for People to play at Cards withal; to prove which, he called several Witnesses, of very good Quality, who had bought them of him at 3 d. per dozen, and they declared, That they had known the Prisoner a long time, and that he was a very honest man; that they had bought several of the pieces of him. It did not any ways appear that he made them out of any ill design or prejudice, therefore he was acquitted .