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<p n="1040"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo828">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1040-1">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1040-2">William<lb></lb>
Bowyer</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1040-3">Thomas King</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date189">2nd. day of April 1785</rs>
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<p n="1041">Who being on Oath say and first said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-1">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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says that,<lb></lb>
on Monday last the 28th. of March, he this Informant with others,<lb></lb>
went to a House kept by one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-2">Thomas Chapman</rs>
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on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo829">Crasen Hill</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo830">Parish of Paddington</rs>
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wherein counterfeiting the Copper<lb></lb>
Money of this Realm was suspected to be carried on and in the<lb></lb>
fore Parlour found <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-3">Solomon Leach</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-4">William Cheshire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now present, eating bread and cheese, their Hands appearing<lb></lb>
very dirty and in a Working dress. That in Cheshire's waistcoat<lb></lb>
pocket he found a piece of SesilThat in a Back parlour<lb></lb>
(the Floor whereof was Dug up) In found a large Press with 2<lb></lb>
Dies for Farthings fixed therein and one Farthing between them;<lb></lb>
a great number of Farthings (apparently just Struck) lying round<lb></lb>
the Press and in another Part of said Parlour he found a Cutting<lb></lb>
Press fixed with several Blanks and a Quantity of Sesil lying<lb></lb>
round it, and also a Hat which Cheshire afterwards owned &<lb></lb>
claimedAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-5">William Bowyer</rs>
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says that he was also<lb></lb>
present at this time and found the Hat which Cheshire afterwards<lb></lb>
claimed hanging on a Nail between said Press's. That between 6 &<lb></lb>
7 o'Clock the same Evening he observed a Woman now present who<lb></lb>
calls herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-6">Ann Leach</rs>
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coming out of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo831">the Hog and Armour Alehouse</rs>
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near said Hence and on<lb></lb>
Searching her, found a Farthing now produced widenthy struck<lb></lb>
from the two Dies before mentioned And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-7">Thomas<lb></lb>
Ting</rs>
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says that he was present with said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-8">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and Searched said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1041-9">Solomon Leach</rs>
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and in his left hand</p>
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