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The Information of
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Thomas Milliner
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taken
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before me this
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31st. day of January 1770
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Who being upon Oath says that he knows one
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John Jennings
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, one
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Morris, one Edwards and one Mr. Martin one Gardner one Backhouse one Baker
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one Crisp, one Harledon, one Roberts of
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in whose hands he
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has seen on Instrument of Steel to make Impressions of a head with Letters
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upon Money
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one I
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a person whose Name he believes to be Hardy who
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lives within a Door or two of the said Baker in the Mint that the said
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John Jennings
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is now a Prisoner in the Marshallsea that the said
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Morris and the said Mr. Martin live in Nottingham Court, that the said
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Edwards lodges in Purl pool Lane near the
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at Mr. Jones's,
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that the said Gardner lives upon
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Saffron hill
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& works at Spur making
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that the said Backhouse uses the
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Robin Hood
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and Little John
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in Holborn, that the said Baker & Hardy live in
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the Mint in
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that the said Crisp lives in
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and the
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said Roberts near
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, and the said Hazledon at
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says he also knows one Merrit a Founder at a Public house at the Corner
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of the Street that leads to Break neck Stairs or at Fathing fields
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Foundery or at
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foundery, that the said
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John
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Jennings
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before he went to Prison kept a Shop in
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White chapel
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where he used the cast and make counterfeit Shillings, that he this Informant
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used to light the fire & make the Crimbles ready that the said
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John Jennings
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used then
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used
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to put in Copper Silver Gallery Stone
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Feather Allim & Arsenick which was all melted together & powred
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through a Birch Broom into Water & if the Metal was not white
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enough the same Process was repeated until it was white enough,
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and then Moles being made of Shillings in Sand in a pair of Flasks
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the Metal was poured into them, says that the said Morris used to
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bring a Quantity of counterfeit Shillings to this Deponent at the Said
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Mrs. Martin's that he this Informant never saw him make them but that
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the counterfeit Shillings which he this Informant was stopped with
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were delivered to him by the said Morris, that he this Informant
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