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the aforementioned Stamping Press Etc was found as aforesaid And
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that the said Counterfeit Copper half pence could not be made
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without the Privity and knowledge of the said
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Thomas Worlings
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Taken and Sworn before me
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the Day and Year first before
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Written.}
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W Blackborow
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John Dinmore
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Middlesex
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to Wit}
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The Information of
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Edward Lavender
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taken upon Oath before me
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Wm. Blackborow
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Esqr
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. One
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of This Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for the
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said County this
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9th. day of March 1787
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Who upon his Oath saith that on Tuesday last the 6th. day of
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March Instant at about the hour of Four of the Clock in the Afternoon
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in Company with
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John Dinmore
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and two others he went to the House
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No. 13
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Peter Street
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in the Parish of
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St. John Clerkenwell
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in the said County
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having received Information that the Current Copper Coin of this Realm
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called half pence were there Feloniously made and Counterfeited
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This Informant knocked at the door which after some little time was
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opened by the Prisoner
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Thomas Worlings
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who was in a Room on the Grand
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floor Immediately on the door being Opened the said
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John Dinmore
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Ran past this Informant to the Stairs leading to the Cellar who Instantly
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followed him and in the Space between the Cellar and Yard they took
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the Prisoner
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Thomas Taylor
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This Informant Instantly pursued the
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other two Prisoners
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Thomas Harcourt
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&
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Mary Worlings
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who had Concealed
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themselves in the Privy from which this Informant
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brought them
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the said
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Mary Worlings
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appeared much Frightened her face Smutty
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and her hands very dirty and black the said
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Thomas Taylor
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and
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Thomas Harcourt
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had not either of their Coats on and their hands
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were likewise extremely black and dirty they were then Secured
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by the Assistance of the other two Officers namely
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Jonathan Redgrave
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and
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Wm. Brackney
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This Informant then went into the Cellar and there found fixed a
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large Stamping Press Compleat with two dyes fixed in the Press and
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one Counterfeit Cooper Half penny between the said Dyes and
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a
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Quantity of other Counterfeit Cooper Half pence lying Round the
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bottom of the Press all of which this Informant Secured This
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Informant also found in another part of the Cellar by the
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direction of the said
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Thomas Taylor
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the Prisoner five other Dyes
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Which Informant also Secured The said
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Thomas Taylor
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was
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then asked by this Informant and the said
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Jonathan Redgrave
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