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<p n="1874"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1445">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1874-1">Cecilia Brown</rs>
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, Samuel<lb></lb>
Collins and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1874-2">David Prothero</rs>
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taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15091_date96">31st. day of August 1780</rs>
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<p n="1875">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-1">Cecilia Brown</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on Wednesday last was sevenigth in the forenoon a<lb></lb>
person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-2">George Vevers</rs>
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came to<lb></lb>
her house in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo1446">Field Lane</rs>
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and asked for counterfeit Half pence<lb></lb>
and afterwards bought of this Informant a Quantity of them<lb></lb>
at a lower rate and Value than by their Denomination they<lb></lb>
imported viz fifty four Shillings worth for two Guineas. says<lb></lb>
that it was agreed between the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-3">George Vevers</rs>
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and this<lb></lb>
Informant that he should receive six shillings worth more<lb></lb>
of the said counterfeit Halfpence from this Informant at<lb></lb>
a future time in order to make it thirty shillings worth<lb></lb>
for each Guinea. And said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-4">Samuel Collins</rs>
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says that<lb></lb>
he was in said Mrs. Brown'<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-5">s house</rs>
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when said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-6">George Vevers</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came in on the said Wednesday morning, and that he heard<lb></lb>
said Vevers ask Mrs. Brown of she had any Thirties (meaning<lb></lb>
as this Informant and understand thirty shillings worth of counterfeit<lb></lb>
Halfpence)<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
when Mrs. Brown replied that she would<lb></lb>
get them for him by One o'Clock that day and said Vevers<lb></lb>
went away. That between 2 and 3 o'Clock the said Vevers<lb></lb>
came again to Mrs. Brown'<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-7">s house</rs>
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(and the said counterfeit<lb></lb>
Halfpence agreed for as before being packed up ready<lb></lb>
for him in a Handkerchief) he observed said Vevers pay<lb></lb>
Mrs. Brown a Guinea in Gold and some Silver and<lb></lb>
afterwards take the Handkerchief of Halfpence up and<lb></lb>
walk away. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n1875-8">David Prothero</rs>
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for himself</p>
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