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<p>I keep the Feathers, a publick-house in Thames-street.</p>
<p>Do you recollect the prisoners coming to your house on the 28th of April? - I was not at home when they came in. When I came home, Morgan was sitting in the taproom; he said to my wife, mistress, give me change for these two pints of beer, and offered her a sixpence. She having a child in her arms, she desired me to give him change. I took the sixpence, and went to the door, and found it was a bad one. I told him it was a bad sixpence; he gave me another. I looked at that, and found it was a bad one, and told him so. He then gave me another, and said D - n them, I believe they are all bad - if my father was a coiner, I could turn <rs type="persName" id="t17790519-26-person306"> <interp inst="t17790519-26-person306" type="role" value=""></interp>
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for him and hang him. That piece was bad. He then gave me a shilling, and I changed that. I got into discourse with him, and asked him who he was; he said, he kept a chandler's shop; I said to him, Morgan, if I was to come into your house, and call for three halfpennyworth of bread and cheese, and offer you three bad sixpences; what should you think me to be? he said, a blackguard. Then I said, I must think you a blackguard, for offering me three bad sixpences. He then desired Jones to go on with the bundle he had, and bid me draw him another pint of beer. I suspected they had counterfeit money about them; I followed Jones out, and asked him what he had there; he said, that he had nothing but some tools; to the best of my knowledge he said tools; he did not tell me they were counterfeit halfpence, I am sure of that. Morgan followed me out of the door, and said, let him go, he has nothing but a few counterfeit halfpence. With that I desired Jones to come back; he did, and Morgan followed him. When he was come back, I sent for a constable, and charged him with them both. Before I charged them, I opened the bundle, and found a parcel of counterfeit halfpence.</p>
<p>Q. What else? - Nothing but counterfeit halfpence. There were three bundles: in each bundle five shillings worth, also a single shilling's worth, and twenty-six shillings worth tied up in papers. This is one of them (producing it) the others I have at home. I did not think it worth while to bring them all; they have been in my custody ever since. Mr. Burkwood, Mr. White, and myself, took them to the Compter. We searched Morgan, and found upon him a small and a large key, and about two shillings in silver. Burkwood took the keys from him. In his discourse he told me, first, he lived at Wood's Close; that he kept a chandler's shop. Then he said he lived somewhere near Wheeler-street, Cold-Bath Fields. I went, in consequence of his direction, to a chandler's shop in Wood's Close, and found he had lived there. I was there directed to a little Court in Cold-Bath-Fields; they could not tell me the name of the court. I went and found the court; I enquired at the corner, and was informed, he lived the second or third door up the court. I said to Mr. Burkwood, let us keep together. I went and rang at the bell three times; nobody answered. I took the key from Burkwood's hand, and opened the door with it; we went up stairs, and saw a candle burning in a little room.</p>
<p>What time was this? - Between nine and ten o'clock in the evening, we then went down, and found a press and several other articles. We then, went up stairs again, and in the room where there was a bed, we found two dies for halfpence upon the floor, and in the cupboard of the room.</p>
<p>(The dies were produced in court.)</p>
<p>Was that in the room where you saw the light? - No; there did not appear to be any lodgers in the house; there were but two beds in the house. Jones said that he had slept in one of them a week, and Morgan and his wife lay in the other. He said, they had made no halfpence there yet. I asked him who dug the hole to fix the block in for the press; he told me himself.</p>
<p>When did he say that, before or after you had been in the house? - After; we could not tell that there was a block there till we had been. The block was fixed in the ground, and the press lay in the cellar; the<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="177905190037"></xptr>
press was not fixed up. There were several articles, as wedges for fixing it up.</p>
<p>Cross Examination.</p>
<p>You took all the halfpence from Jones? - Yes; Morgan bid him go on with the bundle, it was on the table; he shoved it to him.</p>
<p>Did not you hear when you came to the house that it belonged to one Edwards? - I am very certain Morgan said it was his house; Jones, who slept with him, said it was his house.</p>
<p>Did not you hear that the implements were left there by Edwards? - I heard so from Morgan.</p>
<p>The fly, I believe, was not in the house? - No; it was in the house of one Steel.</p>
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<p>I went with Mr. Lawrence to the house of Morgan. I gave him a key, which Morgan said was the key of his house; with which Lawrence opened the door; I was with him when he found the several things which are produced.</p>
<p>Lawrence. Morgan said, when he was before Alderman Pugh, that he wanted a clean shirt, and the key was given him to get one.</p>
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<p>Are those halfpence coined at the Mint or counterfeit halfpence? - They are counterfeit halfpence.</p>
<p>Do they appear to have been made from those dies? - Yes; and the halfpence have the same date; I have no doubt they were made from those dies; they fit exactly. (The press was produced in court).</p>
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<p>You have seen those dies and the press? - I saw the press and fly in the yard; I have not seen the dies.</p>
<p>Look at the dies; are all those instruments proper for coining? - They are proper for coining.</p>
<p>For Morgan.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known Morgan eight years; he always bore a good character; he lodged in my house five years and three quarters.</p>
<p>What business did he follow? - That of a carpenter; he went out to work in the morning, and came home regularly in the evening.</p>
<p>How long is it since he lodged with you? - About three quarters of a year; I have known him to this time.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am a carpenter. Morgan has worked for me seven years backwards and forwards; he is a very honest man; I have trusted Morgan at different times with a 20 l. 30 l. or 40 l. Bank note to get cash for me.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known Morgan about a year and a half; I always believed him to be a very honest man. When I heard of this affair, I could not believe it, nor can I now believe it.</p>
<p>Are you a carpenter? - No; I am a fine-drawer.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known Morgan nine years; he has borne a good character. I am a bricklayer.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known Morgan four years; he is an honest man as far as ever I heard. I am a smith.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I have known Morgan between four and five years; he bore a good character as far as I ever heard.</p>
<p>JONES's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I can prove I am quite innocent of the affair. I worked about six years ago for Mr. Freeman at the Board of Ordnance; I did some carpenter's work for Mr. Morgan; he asked me to carry this bundle for him; I lay at his house a fortnight; I had no money to send to my master to come to my character.</p>
<p>MORGAN's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I was at work for Mr. Pratt, I hung a door for him on the Tuesday. I was taken on the Wednesday. I borrowed some silver that day; I did not know but the sixpences were good.</p>
<p>Pratt. He did hang a door for me, but I cannot remember the day.</p>
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asked me to lend him seven shillings; I told him it was rather inconvenient but if he would let me have it again that night or next morning, I would. There were four sixpences among the money that I lent him; they were all good as far as I know.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. JUSTICE WILLES.</p>
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<note>[Branding. See summary.]</note>
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