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<p n="689"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo522">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="690">The King<lb></lb>
agt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n690-1">Robert Carpenter</rs>
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and Ann his<lb></lb>
Wife and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n690-3">John Carpenter</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="691"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">8th. April 1783.</note>
The Defendants were Committed for<lb></lb>
Coming Counterfeit Shillings and Six pences, and<lb></lb>
a Recognizance Entred into by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n691-1">John Wallis</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
others to Prosecute before the Litting Magistrates<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo523">Bow Street</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="692">A very material Witness for the Crown who<lb></lb>
could have supported the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Prosecution by<lb></lb>
his Testimony has absconded and we are not able to<lb></lb>
find him, therefore we did not Mefer a Bill of<lb></lb>
Indictment against the above named Persons.</p>
<p n="693">But we have preferred two Bills agt. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n693-1">Ann<lb></lb>
Carpenter</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n693-2">John Carpenter</rs>
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for Uttering Counterfeit<lb></lb>
Shillings<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n693-3">John Carpenter</rs>
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was tryed at the<lb></lb>
Sessions House for <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo524">Middlesex</rs>
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on Saturday last<lb></lb>
and found Guilty <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n693-4">Ann Carpenter</rs>
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is not yet tryed.</p>
<p n="694">Please to Move that the Recognizance<lb></lb>
Entred into as above mentioned may be<lb></lb>
discharged.</p>
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