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<p n="324">the aforementioned Stamping Press Etc was found as aforesaid And<lb></lb>
that the said Counterfeit Copper half pence could not be made<lb></lb>
without the Privity and knowledge of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n324-1">Thomas Worlings</rs>
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<p n="325">Taken and Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the Day and Year first before<lb></lb>
Written.}</p>
<p n="326">W Blackborow</p>
<p n="327"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n327-1">John Dinmore</rs>
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</p>
<p n="328"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo356">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n328-1">Edward Lavender</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n328-2">Wm. Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ138">Esqr</rs>
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. One<lb></lb>
of This Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ139">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the<lb></lb>
said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date64">9th. day of March 1787</rs>
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<p n="329">Who upon his Oath saith that on Tuesday last the 6th. day of<lb></lb>
March Instant at about the hour of Four of the Clock in the Afternoon<lb></lb>
in Company with <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-1">John Dinmore</rs>
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and two others he went to the House<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo357">No. 13</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo358">Peter Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo359">St. John Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
having received Information that the Current Copper Coin of this Realm<lb></lb>
called half pence were there Feloniously made and Counterfeited<lb></lb>
This Informant knocked at the door which after some little time was<lb></lb>
opened by the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-2">Thomas Worlings</rs>
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who was in a Room on the Grand<lb></lb>
floor Immediately on the door being Opened the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-3">John Dinmore</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Ran past this Informant to the Stairs leading to the Cellar who Instantly<lb></lb>
followed him and in the Space between the Cellar and Yard they took<lb></lb>
the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-4">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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This Informant Instantly pursued the<lb></lb>
other two Prisoners <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-5">Thomas Harcourt</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-6">Mary Worlings</rs>
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who had Concealed<lb></lb>
themselves in the Privy from which this Informant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
brought them<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-7">Mary Worlings</rs>
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appeared much Frightened her face Smutty<lb></lb>
and her hands very dirty and black the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-8">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-9">Thomas Harcourt</rs>
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had not either of their Coats on and their hands<lb></lb>
were likewise extremely black and dirty they were then Secured<lb></lb>
by the Assistance of the other two Officers namely <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-10">Jonathan Redgrave</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-54">Wm. Brackney</rs>
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<lb></lb>
This Informant then went into the Cellar and there found fixed a<lb></lb>
large Stamping Press Compleat with two dyes fixed in the Press and<lb></lb>
one Counterfeit Cooper Half penny between the said Dyes and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a<lb></lb>
Quantity of other Counterfeit Cooper Half pence lying Round the<lb></lb>
bottom of the Press all of which this Informant Secured This<lb></lb>
Informant also found in another part of the Cellar by the<lb></lb>
direction of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-11">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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the Prisoner five other Dyes<lb></lb>
Which Informant also Secured The said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-12">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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was<lb></lb>
then asked by this Informant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n329-13">Jonathan Redgrave</rs>
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