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<p n="168"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo125">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n168-1">Abraham Joseph Chapman</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
Lodgeth at the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n168-3">Samuel Lewis</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo126">Shoemaker Row</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo127">Aldgate</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the Liberty of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo128">City of London</rs>
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Taken upon Oath this<del>saith</del>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15060_date29">7th day of<lb></lb>
September 1749</rs>
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<p n="169">And first this Informant upon his Oath Saith that Sometime age he resided<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo129">Birmingham</rs>
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where one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n169-1">Thomas Morris</rs>
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then likewise dwell and now is a prisoner in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo130">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="170">And Saith that Sometime about the Month of January last the said Thomas<obscured></obscured>
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Met this Information this City and knowing that he this Informant got his living by Selling<lb></lb>
of Cutlery Wares, told him he was a Guilder and that he had Occasion for a person to Expence to<lb></lb>
Sale such goods as he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n170-1">Thomas Morris</rs>
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dealt in and that he would Allow this Informant<lb></lb>
four Shillings in the Pound for the Goods he should so dispose of for his Use</p>
<p n="171">And Saith that about the beginning of the Month of April last the said Morris<lb></lb>
Came to this Informants House (who then lived in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo131">Black house Yard</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo132">Gravel Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo133">Houndsditch</rs>
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)<lb></lb>
sand desired to lodge with their Informant that Night which he did and Continued so to do till the<lb></lb>
Mr. Lay after Midsummer day last, And Saith that during that time the said Morris used to<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Kala house he pretended to have in full Rents near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo134">Golden Lane</rs>
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by <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo135">Old Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo136">Parish of Saint Lukes</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo137">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="172">That this Informant having lent the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n172-1">Thomas Morris</rs>
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Money he reputed him to<lb></lb>
repay the Same Whereupon the said Morris gave him Six Shillings in half pence in part of<lb></lb>
payment of the said Debt, And Saith that their Informant going to one of his Tradesman<lb></lb>
on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo138">London Bridge</rs>
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with whom he death to make payment of the said half pence, the said person<lb></lb>
perceiving them to be bad told their Informant if he had not known him he would have Caused<lb></lb>
him to be Apprehended for Uttering Counterfeit Money and refused to receive the same.</p>
<p n="173">And Saith that upon the said half pennys being returned to their Informant he<lb></lb>
went to the House of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n173-1">Thomas Morriss</rs>
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Scituate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo139">Fallert Rents</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
where he found the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n173-2">Thomas Morris</rs>
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at<obscured></obscured>
and at the<lb></lb>
same time Observed in the Window of the Room he was then at work in large Quantity by<lb></lb>
Counterfeit half pence And Saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15060_n173-3">Thomas Morris</rs>
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Offer'd this Informant them<lb></lb>
Pennyworth of such Counterfeit Money if he wod. undertake to put and offer him, which he replied</p>
<p n="174">And Lastly their Informant Saith that the said Morris being Apprehended<lb></lb>
for Straling & Silver Tankards and Committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo140">Newgate</rs>
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his Lodging was<lb></lb>
Searched and on Searching a Lodging he had in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15060_geo141">petticoat Lane</rs>
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at one<lb></lb>
Mr. Lixons these was found a Now that was built for the use of sd. Morris<lb></lb>
and a few Counterfeit half pence & in this Informants house where St. Morris Lodag'd a large peace of bad<lb></lb>
half pence and other Materials for Carrying on this practice and which remain<lb></lb>
Do<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Handy one of the Persons who has</p>
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