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The Information of
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7th day of
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September 1749
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And first this Informant upon his Oath Saith that Sometime age he resided
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then likewise dwell and now is a prisoner in
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And Saith that Sometime about the Month of January last the said Thomas
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Met this Information this City and knowing that he this Informant got his living by Selling
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of Cutlery Wares, told him he was a Guilder and that he had Occasion for a person to Expence to
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dealt in and that he would Allow this Informant
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four Shillings in the Pound for the Goods he should so dispose of for his Use
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And Saith that about the beginning of the Month of April last the said Morris
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sand desired to lodge with their Informant that Night which he did and Continued so to do till the
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Mr. Lay after Midsummer day last, And Saith that during that time the said Morris used to
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Kala house he pretended to have in full Rents near
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That this Informant having lent the said
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Money he reputed him to
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repay the Same Whereupon the said Morris gave him Six Shillings in half pence in part of
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payment of the said Debt, And Saith that their Informant going to one of his Tradesman
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on
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with whom he death to make payment of the said half pence, the said person
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perceiving them to be bad told their Informant if he had not known him he would have Caused
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him to be Apprehended for Uttering Counterfeit Money and refused to receive the same.
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And Saith that upon the said half pennys being returned to their Informant he
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went to the House of the said
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aforesaid
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where he found the said
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and at the
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same time Observed in the Window of the Room he was then at work in large Quantity by
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Counterfeit half pence And Saith that the said
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Pennyworth of such Counterfeit Money if he wod. undertake to put and offer him, which he replied
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And Lastly their Informant Saith that the said Morris being Apprehended
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for Straling & Silver Tankards and Committed to
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his Lodging was
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at one
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Mr. Lixons these was found a Now that was built for the use of sd. Morris
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and a few Counterfeit half pence & in this Informants house where St. Morris Lodag'd a large peace of bad
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half pence and other Materials for Carrying on this practice and which remain
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Handy one of the Persons who has
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