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for himself Saith that having received
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that coining
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George Dawson
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in the Parish of Saint George
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he this Informant in
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Company with the said other Informants went to the said House on the tenth day of
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August instant when the said
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Knock'd at the Door of the sd. House
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but no Person coming to open the same this Informant and the said
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went through the next House where he got over the Fence after which he broke open the
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Window of the suspected House and by that means Informant and said Reynolds
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gam'd Admittance when they open'd the Street door and let in the other Informants.
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after which they proceeded up Stairs And this Informant further Says tha as he
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was going up Stairs he met the person now present who calls herself
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Deborah
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coming down Stairs as if from the Garrett and after the Informant
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had taken her into the front Garrett.
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one pair of Stairs front Room
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he proceeded to search
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her and as he was searching her right Hand Pocket he observ'd her drop on the
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Floor two Counterfeit Six pences which he now produces and on searching her Right
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hand Pocket he found two other Counterfeit Six pences which he likewise
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produces that
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in the said Garrett
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he
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found a Person who calls himself
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George Dawson
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in the Custody of the other
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Informants who being very violent Informant Hand cuff'd him after which
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Informant proceeded to search the said Garrett wherein he found a Charcoal Fire
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lighted on which was placed a Crucible with part of a Spray and some base Metal therein
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and also four pieces of Metal designed for Six Pences but defectively cast that
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Informant also found in said Garrett then Pair of Flasks with the Frames, a
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quantity of Metal which appears like Silver, some blank'd Copper, part of an
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Old Metal Dish from whence the piece of Metal found in the Crucible appears to
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have been art, four other Crucibles a Quantity of sand Paper, some facing,
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Cork, Fyles, Plyers, Scales, & Weights Sand or Coome, and some Chareval,
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That informant then went into the one pair of Stairs front Room in which was
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a Bed, and on which Bed a Coat was laying which the Prisoner
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George
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say'd belonged to him, and as such took it away and Informant believes
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it to be the same Coat in which he now appears, that on searching the Pockets
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of the said Coat Informant found therein two Counterfeit Shillings and seven
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Counterfeit Six pences all finished fit for Circulation which Informant now
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produces, that Informant then examined the House and in the back Room
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on the ground Floor he found laying in the Window loose two Counterfeit
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