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The Information of
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Peter Senhouse
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taken before me this 30th. day of July 1781.
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Who being on Oath say, that having received Information of
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Some persons, suspected to be Coiners of Half pence in
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Buildings Holborn, they on the 27th. day of this instant July went
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to a House No. 3 in
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aforesaidThat on entering the
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Cellars of the said House they perceived Six persons now present who call
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themselves
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Benjamin Lee
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Shedrick Dunkley
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Richard Williams
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Hannah Trueman
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Elizabeth Williams
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That they
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were all stripp'dthe said Lee, Dunkley, Williams and Wooldridge had
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their Shirt Sleeves tucked up and their hands and Shirts were very
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black and greasyThat they found in said Cellar-three Presses
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Candles lighted and struck at each Press a great Quantity of Counterfeit
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Half pence lying by the said Presses & two Dies fixed
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a great Quantity of Blanks and Cezil, and every Implement necessary
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to coin Half pence and that they do verily believe at the time they enter'd
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the said Cellars, all the above persons, were Coining Counterfeit Half pence
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And the said Peter Sen house for himself further says that on the Stairs
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leading to the said Cellars he apprehended another person now present who
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calls herself
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Rebecca Brown
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and in his attempting to search he
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she struggled and endeavoured to get away and would not permit
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him to search herThat he pulled a pocket from her side, in which
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he found a Quantity of Counterfeit Half pence now produced (which
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were wrapped up in apiece of brown paper;) and that he doth verily
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believe she the said
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was aiding and abetting the
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aforesaid persons in feloniously making coining and counterfeiting
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