John Muglestone proceedingsdefend , Roger Muglestone proceedingsdefend , and John Harris proceedingsdefend , were tryed for Clipping the Currant Coine of this Kingdom, as Elizabeth, James, and Charles the First, Halfe-Crowns, Shillings, &c. The Evidence was, that the former of the Prisoners had at divers times been seen to Clip and File Money, and that he sent a Youth to sell divers quantities of melted Silver, with one of which Parcels being seized by the Goldsmith to whom he offered it, he confessed where he had it, upon which the Prisoners House was searched, where divers Shears, Melting-Pots, Files, and other such like Instruments were found: As also, a considerable quantity of Clipped Money: As to the Second Person he was Brother to the former, and assisting to him in his defrauding Occupation: And against Harris it was sworn, that he furnished the Prisoners with Money, and had Six-pence in the Pound for Clipping, and that he had of a long time been of Confederacy with them; upon which, and sundry other Circumstances, as the Instruments being produced in Court, and the Bars of melted Silver, and the like, the Jury found them all three guilty of the High-Treason, as in the Indictment layed.

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