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Says that Dring took five bad Shillings, out of
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the Paper which he had received from Roake, and gave to this
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Informant for which he paid him three shillings and six
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Pence, and Dring returned him three Pence says that his
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before made of thirty Shillings for twenty Says that Dring
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told him Roake would follow with the rest says that he never
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intended corruptly to purchase the said five Pieces of bad Money
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but only bought them for the Purpose of bringing him to Justice
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Says that the five Piece now produced are the same which
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he purchased of the Prisoner Dring
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for himself
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saith that he was waiting by Appointment at the White Horn
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at Cripplegates says that the Prisoner Dring came in with
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Lewis Abrahams
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and found the ten bad Shillings now produced in his Hand that he had three
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shillings and six pence in good Silver in his Pocket says that
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he searched the Informant
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Lewis Abrahams
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and found the
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five shillings bad Money, now produced, in his Pocket says
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that in about ten Minutes after, the other Prisoner Roake, together
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with one Kerwick, came to the Door, that as soon as they saw
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him, this Informant, they went out says that he followed and
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brought them back that he searched and found thirty bad
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shillings from the his right Hand Waitcoat Pocket, of Roake five bad shillings
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from the other Waistcoat Pocket, and two from his Breeches Pocket
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says that the counterfict Money now produced are the same
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which he took from the Prisoner Roake says that he searched
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Kerwick, but found nothing upon him.
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William Sargesson
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for himself
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Roake thirty bad Shillings, the same as now produced, in a
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brown Paper says that he saw the other Prisoner Dring, searched
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and the several sums of bad Money here produced, as described
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by the Informant
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, taken from him says
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he also saw the five shillings now produced taken from the
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Lewis Abrahams
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Taken and sworn this
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9th August 1786
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Wm. Pickett
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his
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