Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
19th February 1777
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JOHN
SAVAGE
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was indicted for that he did
feloniously forge and counterfeit, and cause and procure to be made and counterfeited, and did willingly act in the making and counterfeiting the mark and stamp of a lion, to the likeness and similitude of the mark and stamp used and to be used by the goldsmith's company in marking and stamping gold and silver plate
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2d Count. Leaving out the word feloniously, January 23d
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NOT GUILTY
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Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.