Samuel Bond: The Deposition of Samuel Bond of Ashbourn in the Peake in the County of Derby Chyrurgeon 16 September 1698

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 15/17/27, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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The Deposicon of Samuel Bond of Ashbourn in the peake in the County of Derby Chyrurgeon 16 7ber 1698

Hee sayth that abo^t. a month ago being in Newgate for Debt he there heard Francis Ball of Ashbourn aforesaid complain of y^e Warden of the mint for his severity ag^t. Coyners and say Damne my blood I had been out before now but for him (meaning out of Newgate) and Whitfield who was also then in prison made answer y^t the Warden of the mint was a Rogue and if ever King Iames came againe he would shoot him and the s^d Ball made answer God dam my blood so will I and tho I dont know him yet I'le find him out And the said Whitfield said further that the Warden had troubled his wife for a litle bitt of Clippings found upon her coat and spend 5 hundred Gineas to get her off – and that abo^t. 3 or 4 days after this the sd Ball and Whitfield having procured an habeas Corpus in order to be bailed before my Lord Cheife {sic} Iustice Holt he this Depon^t. heard the said Ball say that his father was to be one of their bayle and went by a wrong name and that their bayle was sham bayle and that the sd Ball and Whitfield in talking to one another sayd that the guilding of pistoles cost the 6^d. apiece or 7^d. a piece and that it was not y^e buisines of the Warden of the mint but of the Spanish Embassad^r. to prosecute men for counterfeiting them

Sam Bond

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M^r. Bond lodges at M^r Storys a Taylor in Glasshouse yard in BlackFryers

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^[2] Iurat die et anno prædict coram
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