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<p n="1654"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1092">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1654-1">John Clark</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1654-2">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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taken before me this 11<obscured></obscured>
day of September 1781</p>
<p n="1655">Who being upon Oath says and First the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-1">John Clark</rs>
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For himself says that on Friday the 31st.. day of August last in Consequence<lb></lb>
of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
an Information respecting the Coining of Half pence he went to the<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-2">William Storer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1093">Kings head Court Saint Martin le Grand</rs>
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that on knocking at the Door, a Person now present who calls <lb></lb>
herself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-3">Mary Storer</rs>
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opened the same - That in the Collar of said<lb></lb>
House he found a cutting out Press, a Quantity of Copper Blanks<lb></lb>
and some Cezil - That in the Collar adjourning he found a large<lb></lb>
Press, the Dies Fixed, and a Quantity of other Dies - That on coming<lb></lb>
up Stairs, he Searched the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-4">Mary Storer</rs>
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and Found in her Pocket<lb></lb>
a Counterfeit Half Penny now produced - and in a Closet<del>of the said</del>
<lb></lb>
in the Parlour of the said House where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-5">Mary Storer</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
he found five Blank Dies now Produced - And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-6">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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for himself Says that he went with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-7">John Clark</rs>
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to the said<del>John</del>
<lb></lb>
William Storers house and after being there about half an hour a person<lb></lb>
now present who calls himself Thomas Oren<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
knocked at the Door<lb></lb>
on which he let him in, that he then searched him and found in his<lb></lb>
Coat Pocket two punches for Striking Dies now Produced - That he asked<lb></lb>
said Orine what his Name was, who answered that his Name was<lb></lb>
Jones and that he was a Silversmith by Trade - That about half<lb></lb>
an hour afterwards<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-9">William Storer</rs>
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knocked at the Door<lb></lb>
on Which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1655-10">Mary Storer</rs>
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(having seen him thro' the Window) instantly</p>
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