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The Information of
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Wm Penny
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2d day of July 1696
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Whoe Sayeth upon his Oath that in May 1699
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hee this Informt recd of
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Phillip Cox
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Mouth Street
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. tenn pound of Counterfeit
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halfe Crownes for which two gave the
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Cox,
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Six pound odd money of good money At which time
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the sayd Cox told this Informt that the sayd halfe
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Crownes were made in his house and told this
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Informant that was a very Convenient place
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to wake in, and defined this Examit to come and
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worke with him in making more such & sayd
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that there was not any during because hee was
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in good Creddit & his neighbor did not suspect hime
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then this Informt sayd hee did not came to venter
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then hee gave this Informt 6d weight of Gold &
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false melle to make blank places with to make
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false Guineas & shewd him this Informt a false
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Guina reddy made And carryed him this Informt not
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his Garret & Shewed him flasks sand facing &
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other materiall for Coyning. And further sayth that
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about Midsumer last, this Informt met the sayd
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Cox in the Street who defined him to Walke in &
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take a pott which hee did & then the sayd Cox
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did shew this Informt a Raw Capper Mild thinking
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not Whited & sayd hee would Whiten it himself
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And sayth that this day hee did cause the sayd Cox
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to been apprhended for a Coyner & then found in his
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Custody 2 false milld Shillings now producd And
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then went into his house to Search & saw the sayd
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Cox Shuffle about a drawer & tooke out something
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& drope it behing a kinde of u bed which this
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Informant then tooke after & there found a
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Counterfeit pistoll which was what the sayd Cox had
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dropt there as this Informt beleives because hee did
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