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The Information of
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Collins and
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David Prothero
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this
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31st. day of August 1780
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Who being on Oath say and first the said
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Cecilia Brown
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that on Wednesday last was sevenigth in the forenoon a
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person now present who calls himself
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came to
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her house in
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Field Lane
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and asked for counterfeit Half pence
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and afterwards bought of this Informant a Quantity of them
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at a lower rate and Value than by their Denomination they
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imported viz fifty four Shillings worth for two Guineas. says
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George Vevers
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and this
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Informant that he should receive six shillings worth more
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of the said counterfeit Halfpence from this Informant at
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a future time in order to make it thirty shillings worth
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for each Guinea. And said
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Samuel Collins
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he was in said Mrs. Brown'
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came in on the said Wednesday morning, and that he heard
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said Vevers ask Mrs. Brown of she had any Thirties (meaning
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as this Informant and understand thirty shillings worth of counterfeit
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Halfpence)
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when Mrs. Brown replied that she would
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get them for him by One o'Clock that day and said Vevers
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went away. That between 2 and 3 o'Clock the said Vevers
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came again to Mrs. Brown'
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(and the said counterfeit
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Halfpence agreed for as before being packed up ready
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for him in a Handkerchief) he observed said Vevers pay
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Mrs. Brown a Guinea in Gold and some Silver and
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afterwards take the Handkerchief of Halfpence up and
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walk away. And the said
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