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<p n="1548"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1092">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1548-1">John Clark</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1548-2">Charles Jealous</rs>
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taken before me this 6th.. day of Septemr. 1782.</p>
<p n="1549">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1549-1">John Clark</rs>
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says that on<lb></lb>
Monday last he this Informant with others went to a House No.. 1<lb></lb>
in China Row <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45026_geo1093">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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, in which House Money was<lb></lb>
suspected to be coined. That in the back Cellar of said House he found<lb></lb>
a Large Press fixed, with a Pair of Dies therein,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Quantity of<lb></lb>
counterfeit Half pence lying near it and also a Quantity of Blanks<lb></lb>
ready for Stamping and two Candles lighted. That in the front Cellar<lb></lb>
of said House he found a Great Quantity of counterfeit Half pence<lb></lb>
which had been Recently Stamped and evidently from another pair<lb></lb>
of Dies which he found near the Press in the back Cellar.<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1549-2">Charles Jealous</rs>
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says that he was with Mr.. Clarke<lb></lb>
at this time and when they first got to the House the Maid came<lb></lb>
out and locked the door after her. That this Informant took the<lb></lb>
Key from her unlocked the door and ran down stairs where<lb></lb>
he found two persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1549-3">John<lb></lb>
Morgan</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1549-4">Edward Tylee</rs>
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concealed under the Stairs, without<lb></lb>
their Coats, their Shirt Sleeves tucked up,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a coarse Apron<lb></lb>
tied round Tylee, and both their Hands very black, That he<lb></lb>
observed Morgan throw away a Quantity of Counterfeit Half pence<lb></lb>
which this Informant picked up and on comparing them perceived<lb></lb>
they had been struck from the Dies which were in the Press.<lb></lb>
And further says that a Hat which this Informant found lying<lb></lb>
on the Blanks, was claimed by Tylee who said "it was his."</p>
<p n="1550">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
6th.. day of Septemr. 1782}</p>
<p n="1551"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1551-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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<p n="1552"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1552-1">John Clark</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45026_n1552-2">Charles Jellous</rs>
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