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2nd. day of February 1780
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Who being upon Oath say and first the said David
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and others were at Work at Coining there) Saith that he together with the
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Crown Alehouse in Lad Lane in the
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he found two Counterfeit half pence
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for himself saith that in the Morning
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of the said 1st. day of February Instant he saw said Thomas
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Corne go into the house No. 1 Howford Court aforesaid and that
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in the said House he found a Letter now produced directed to Thomas
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Pickering, in Consequence of which he, with the said David
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went to the Crown Alehouse aforesaid,
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for himself further saith, that he
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doth verily believe the said two Counterfeit Half pence now produced
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were struck from the said two Dies, so found in the Cellar of the said
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House No. 1 in Howford Court aforesaid
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Sworn before me this
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2nd. day of Febry. 1780}
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