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feloniously and traiterously coining and counterfeiting a piece of false, feigned, and counterfeit money and coin to the likeness and<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="177607100049"></xptr>
similitude of the good, legal, and current money of this realm called a shilling </rs>
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<p>2d Count. For coining a six pence.</p>
<p>'There were no flasks found which are</p>
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<p>'to be a prisoner in the liberties of the Fleet</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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