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<p n="65"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo38">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n65-1">John Clark</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n65-2">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me this 12th. day of October 1782</p>
<p n="66">Who being upon Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-1">John Clark</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that on Thursday last he with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-2">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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and other<lb></lb>
Officers went to the House of one Green in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo39">Chambers Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo40">Goodmans<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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, having received Information that some Corners were<lb></lb>
there-That he knocked at the Door and Mrs. Green Wife of<lb></lb>
the said Green let him inThat said Carpmeal broke open<lb></lb>
the Celler Door on the top of the Stairs and went in-That this<lb></lb>
Informant hearing a Noise went into the Yard where<lb></lb>
he<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
saw two persons now present who call themselves<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-3">William Yardley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-4">James Yardley</rs>
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coming from out of<lb></lb>
a Back Cellar and go into a Little<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
WorkshopThat<lb></lb>
he and the other Officers took them into Custody and brought<lb></lb>
them back to the said Cellar where he found a large Coining Press<lb></lb>
fixed, a pair of Dies within it, a Quantity, of counterfeit<lb></lb>
Half pence lying round it, a Cutting out Press, a Quantity<lb></lb>
of Copper Blank & Sissil-and also in another Cellar a<lb></lb>
cutting out PressThat in a Garret of said House he found<lb></lb>
a Quantity of counterfeit Half pence now produced and a<lb></lb>
Quantity of PaperThat he searched the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-5">William<lb></lb>
Yardley</rs>
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and found in his Pocket (wrapped up in a Piece<lb></lb>
of Paper) a Half penny now produced which appears<lb></lb>
to have been struck from the<del>said</del>
Dies that were within<lb></lb>
said PressAnd the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-6">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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says that he broke<lb></lb>
open said Cellar Door and saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-7">William Yardley</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-8">James<lb></lb>
Yardley</rs>
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come from out of the said Cellar where said Coining<lb></lb>
Tools were found and saw the Snuff still lighted at said large Press That-in a one pair of Stairs front Room<lb></lb>
where said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n66-9">William Yardley</rs>
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lived be found under the Grate</p>
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