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15th. day of
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says that on Saturday Evening last the 11th of February instant
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he Apprehended the two Women now present who call themselves
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Strand
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that in a few Minutes afterwards a Person now present
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came into the one Pair of Stairs
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Room and in said Room this Informant found a pair of Flasks, a Quantity of Sand
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facing them, and a Wire that the Get comes from, some Aqua Fortis
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a Quantity of Counterfeit Shillings and the Patterns which they were
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apparently cart from together with the other Implements for coining now
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producedthe said
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for himself says that about
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half an hour part 5 o Clock on the said Saturday Evening he entered
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- that in
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about five Minutes afterwards said
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came in, when
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he was secured - that hearing something drop he stoop'd down
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and found the two Counterfeit Six pences now produced lying on the
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floor, together with a Quantity of Scowering Paper, Blacking
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and Cork - And the said
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for himself says -
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that about 5 o Clock on the said Saturday Evening he went
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aforesaid - that he saw Phoebe Harris take a
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