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<p n="1465"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo942">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1465-1">John Clark</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1465-2">David Prothers</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1465-3">Peter Senhouse</rs>
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taken before me this 30th. day of July 1781.</p>
<p n="1466">Who being on Oath say, that having received Information of<lb></lb>
Some persons, suspected to be Coiners of Half pence in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo943">Cumberland Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo944">Southampton</rs>
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Buildings Holborn, they on the 27th. day of this instant July went<lb></lb>
to a House No. 3 in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo945">Cumberland Court</rs>
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aforesaidThat on entering the<lb></lb>
Cellars of the said House they perceived Six persons now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-1">Benjamin Lee</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-2">Shedrick Dunkley</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-3">Richard Williams</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-4">Jonas<lb></lb>
Wooldridge</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-5">Hannah Trueman</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-6">Elizabeth Williams</rs>
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That they<lb></lb>
were all stripp'dthe said Lee, Dunkley, Williams and Wooldridge had<lb></lb>
their Shirt Sleeves tucked up and their hands and Shirts were very<lb></lb>
black and greasyThat they found in said Cellar-three Presses<lb></lb>
Candles lighted and struck at each Press a great Quantity of Counterfeit<lb></lb>
Half pence lying by the said Presses & two Dies fixed<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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a great Quantity of Blanks and Cezil, and every Implement necessary<lb></lb>
to coin Half pence and that they do verily believe at the time they enter'd<lb></lb>
the said Cellars, all the above persons, were Coining Counterfeit Half pence<lb></lb>
And the said Peter Sen house for himself further says that on the Stairs<lb></lb>
leading to the said Cellars he apprehended another person now present who<lb></lb>
calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-7">Rebecca Brown</rs>
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and in his attempting to search he<lb></lb>
she struggled and endeavoured to get away and would not permit<lb></lb>
him to search herThat he pulled a pocket from her side, in which<lb></lb>
he found a Quantity of Counterfeit Half pence now produced (which<lb></lb>
were wrapped up in apiece of brown paper;) and that he doth verily<lb></lb>
believe she the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1466-8">Rebecca Brown</rs>
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was aiding and abetting the<lb></lb>
aforesaid persons in feloniously making coining and counterfeiting</p>
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