Edward Smith: The Information of Edward Smith of the parish of Islington in the county of Middlesex Gardener 2 March 1698/9

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The Informacon of Edward Smith of the ꝑish of Islington in the County of Middx Gardiner 2^d March 169$\frac{8}{9}$

Who saith that he hath been acquainted with m^r. George Green of the ꝑish of S^t. Andrews Holborn Linnen Draper abo^t. 3 years last past and that he hath heard the said Green Declare that he was acquainted with one William Thornton and Henry Holder and that the said Holder + Thornton (as Green said) used to make counterfeit money at a house near the City of Norwich and that they being suspected by their Neighbo^rs to make counterfeit money they removed from thence to one M^r. Sadler's at Stretham in the Isle of Ely where the said Holder and Thornton with the assistance of Sadler used to make Counterfeit money as Green told this Inform^t and the said George Green being told this Inform^t. that he this Inform^t had a parcell of Blanched Copper and Silver mixed togeather the said Green <77v> this Inform^t. to let him have it in order to send it to the said Thornton and Holder to make into counterfeit money shill^s as he declared to this Inform^t. and abo^t. the latter end of last Summer this Inform^t let the said Green have the said Mixt Metall and this Inform^t. sometime after he had deliverd the Metall to Green as aforesd askt of him some recompence of paym^t. for the same who told him that he the said Green had given the Metall to the said Holder and that Holder was not come to town therefore Green could not give this Inform^t any satisfaction for the sd Mixt Metall but this Inform^t. being very urg^t. to have some satisfacon for the sd Metall the sd Green pulld out of his pocket a ꝑcell of money in which there was some counterfeit shill^s and two Counterfeit Spanish pistolls and gave to this Inform^t out of the same 4 count^rfeit shill^s and told him that they were made by the s^d Holder + Thornton and this Inform^t being afterwards at the sd Sadlers house in the Isle of Ely the sd Sadler told him that himself Thornton + Holder used to make counterfeit money and shewed then to this Inform^t an an {sic} Edger for shillings and shewed the use of it by putting a shilling into it reconning it through the same and this Inform^t hath been told the s^d Sadler is now a person in Ely Gaol for coyning false money

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Edws^dd Smith

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