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<p n="317"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo252">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n317-1">Thomas Carpmeal</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this 22nd. day of January 1783.</p>
<p n="318">Who being on Oath says that having received Information that a<lb></lb>
Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n318-1">Abraham Butler</rs>
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coined<lb></lb>
and counterfeited Money at his House in Holborn, he went there<lb></lb>
on Friday last. That in the Cock left of said Butler's house he found<lb></lb>
a Cutting out Press with a cutting Engine fixed therein for Coining, and<lb></lb>
a Quantity of round Blanks and Sissil now produced lying<lb></lb>
mar them, together with another cutting Engine now produced.<lb></lb>
And this Informant farther says he doth verily believe that<lb></lb>
he said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n318-2">Abraham Butler</rs>
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Knowingly had in his House Custody<lb></lb>
and possession the aforesaid Press for Coinage and two cutting<lb></lb>
Engines: and that he hid and concealed the same without lawful<lb></lb>
Authority or sufficient Excuse for that Purpose.</p>
<p n="319">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
22nd. day of January 1783.}</p>
<p n="320"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n320-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="321"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n321-1">Thos. Carpmeal</rs>
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