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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of Thomas
Harcourt< no role > [..]
[..]
[..] taken and made before me William
Blackborow< no role > Esqr . One of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace in and for the said County this 13th. day of March 1787 .

Who saith that about two Months ago he was employed by his Fellow
Prisoner Thomas Taylor< no role > to Assist him in making and Counterfeiting the
Current Copper Coin of this Realm called Halfpence and which this
Examinant and the said Thomas Taylor< no role > hath at different times Since
continued to do in a Cellar in the House of the said Thomas Taylor< no role >
Situate in Peter Street in the Parish of Saint John Clerkenwell in the said
County and where a Stamping Press with dyes & other Impliments were
fixed for that purpose and Examinant was paid by the said Thomas
Taylor< no role > at the Rate of Eight pence for every piece madeThis
Examinant further saith that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > Pulled up
the Fly and this Examinant put in And that the said Thos. Taylor< no role >
and this Examinant were at work in making and Counterfeiting
the said Copper Halfpence at the time the Officers came to the
House but hearing a Noise they left off and endeavoured to
get away and Conceal themselves That the Counterfeit Copper
Halfpence found in the said Cellar [..] by the Officers were made
by this Examinant and the said Thomas Taylor< no role > as were also the
Paper parcel of Halfpence found in the said Thomas Taylor< no role > 's Room up
one pair of Stairs And this Examinant lastly saith that Thomas
Worlings< no role > and Mary Worlings< no role > were not in any manner Concern'd
in making and Counterfeiting the said Current [..] Counterfeit
Copper Half pence and that he verily beleives the same was done
without the Privity or knowledge of the said Thos< no role > . & Mary Worlings< no role >

Taken and made before
Me the Day and Year above
Written.}

W Blackborow

Thos Harcourt< no role >

S. V.