T - J - proceedingsdefend of the Parish of Saint Michael's Cornhill, in the Ward of Cornhill , was indicted for High-Treason, for Clipping 100 Halfcrowns on the Four and twentieth of December last . It appeared that the Prisoner came to the Prosecutor's Shop and cheapned some Garlick Cloath, and offered him some Clipt-money, which he did refuse to take, and carried him to one Mr. Spinks, who discovering the same to be newly clipt, stopt him, and caused him to be apprehended. But there was no Evidence that could say that he was the Person that clipt it; the Prisoner said in his own behalf, that he took it for Cloath at Rochester Fair. The Jury found him not guilty .