Katherine Clark: The Information of Katherine Clark wife of Michael Clark a soldier in the Regiment of Dutch Foot Guards 7 April 1699

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The Informacon of Katherine Clark wife of Michael Clark a Soldjer in the Regim^t of Dutch foot Guards 7 Aprill 1699

Who saith that abo^t. 3 weeks ago she was at the Lodging of Phillip Williams in the ꝑish of S^t. Mary White Chappell and this Inform^t. did then and there see the said Phillip Williams take two shillings and 3 sixpences and the sd Williams took a knife and with it endeavour^d to cut and make upon the shill^s and sixpences things in imitacon of the Scepters that are upon Gineas {sic} and half Gineas {sic} and afterwards rub^d. the sd Shillings + six pences with Quicksilver and then Blanch the wife of the sd Williams cover^d the sd Shillings + Sixpences over with Leafe Gold to make them look like Gineas {sic} and then put them put them {sic} upon some Small Coal to heat and afterwards put the sd money into Urin and then rub^d it with a Wyer Brush and the sd Blanch Williams would have had this Inform^t. to have taken one of the Shillings (so cover^d with leafe Gold as af{illeg}|o|resd and have put it off or paid {o}|i|t away to an <82r> Old woman that sells Hatts for a Ginea {sic} and the sd Phillip Williams and Blanch his wife would have had this Inform^t to have gone into the countrey with them to have put away false Gineas {sic} half Gineas {sic} and Pistolls and the Method that this Inform^t was to take to put them away was to have a Good Ginea {sic} or half Ginea {sic} or Pistoll and a bad one and if she this Inform^t was question^d for offering of a false Ginea {sic} she might then change it with y^e Good Ginea {sic} and say that she received it in Holland and she being a Dutch woman did not understand English money

Cath Clark

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