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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n217-1">David Prothero</rs>
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, Moses<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n217-2">Murrant and</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n217-3">Charles Jealous</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
the this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15091_date12">2nd. day of February 1780</rs>
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<p n="218">Who being upon Oath say and first the said David<lb></lb>
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for himself saith that on the 1st. day of February Instant<lb></lb>
he went to a house No. 1 in Howford Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo117">Fenchurch Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo118">City of London</rs>
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(he having received Information that one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-1">Thomas Pickering</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and others were at Work at Coining there) Saith that he together with the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-2">Moses Murrant</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-3">Charles Jealous</rs>
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searched said House<lb></lb>
and found in the Cellar of said House a Coining Press and a<lb></lb>
large Quantity of Implements and Materials for Coining Half pence<lb></lb>
with a large Quantity of Counterfeit Half pence and several Dies<lb></lb>
was produced particularly two Dies found in the said Coining Press<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-4">Moses Murrant</rs>
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for himself saith that on the said 1st.<lb></lb>
day of February Instant he apprehended two persons now present<lb></lb>
who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-5">Thomas Pickering</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-6">Thomas Corne</rs>
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at the<lb></lb>
Crown Alehouse in Lad Lane in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15091_geo119">City of London</rs>
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and on the<lb></lb>
person of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-7">Thomas Pickering</rs>
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he found two Counterfeit half pence<lb></lb>
now produced. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-8">Charles Jealous</rs>
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for himself saith that in the Morning<lb></lb>
of the said 1st. day of February Instant he saw said Thomas<lb></lb>
Corne go into the house No. 1 Howford Court aforesaid and that<lb></lb>
in the said House he found a Letter now produced directed to Thomas<lb></lb>
Pickering, in Consequence of which he, with the said David<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15091_occ47">Prothero</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-9">Moses Murrant</rs>
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went to the Crown Alehouse aforesaid,<lb></lb>
and there Apprehended the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-10">Thomas Pickering</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-11">Thomas Corne</rs>
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And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n218-12">David Prothero</rs>
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for himself further saith, that he<lb></lb>
doth verily believe the said two Counterfeit Half pence now produced<lb></lb>
were struck from the said two Dies, so found in the Cellar of the said<lb></lb>
House No. 1 in Howford Court aforesaid</p>
<p n="219">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
2nd. day of Febry. 1780}</p>
<p n="220"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15091_n220-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="221">his<lb></lb>
David<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Prothero<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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Moses<obscured></obscured>
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