Thomas Gale: The Deposition of Thomas Gale of Cambridge in the county of Cambridge Carpenter 5 December 1698

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The Deposition of Thomas Gale of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge Carpenter taken this 5^th day of Decemb^r 1698

He saith that on or about the 24^th. day of October last he received of William Thornton who lately kept the Fountain Taverne in Bury in the County of Suffold the sum of five shillings of Counterfeit mill'd money at the Town of Cambridge above mentioned in a payment of 7^s. of which 2 were good ones and that about a fortnight afterwards the Deponent seiz'd a box by a Warrant from the Mayor of Cambridge which box M^r. Thomas Sadler of Strattam in the Isle of Ely sent by his son John Goodgame to one {Long} a Poulterer in Cambridge to carry to London to M^r. John Mann at the Sign of the Bell and Chequer in Crispin street near Spittle fields Markett to whom it was directed And that the said Box being seiz'd at Cambridge in the custody of the said {Long} and opened there were found in it 4 pair of Brass Flass for casting, severall litle baggs of fine White pouder supposed to be the Spaud for moulding the Flasks and severall files: and a hammer or two and a Bottle of Aqua fortis and a sett of steel Letters and Screws with Plates to hold the Flasks and an Instrument with a Wheel and severall <32r> other things And that Sadler above mentioned being apprehended and examined about the said box afirmed that that box was William Thorton's above mentioned and that in the said box was found a Morning Gown which one mr. Iennings had before seen worn by such a sort of a Man as M^r Thorton is described to be and Sadlers wife and son and daughter all confirmed that the said Box belonged to a man who went by the name of Sadler's brother which man Sadler said was Thorton And that the said Sadler owned that the said box was sent from London before Sturbridge Fair by the said W^m. Thornton came down from London to Sadlers last Summer and after some stay there he and Sadler went to London togeather and after their return to Sadler's house the said box came down from London in the Wagon as Sadler represents and was kept by Thornton in Sadler's house in the Chamber where Thornton lay and that Sadler owns that Thornton staid about 20 weeks at his house and that one Renolds a Smith in S^t. Ives in the County of Huntington is reported to have made 5 or 6 round pieces of Iron some of the Bignes of a shilling and some of the bigness of $\frac{1}{2}$ a Crown for Sadler and Thornton who paid him for them and that the Deponent hath also been told that Sadler and his wife, son and Daughter have all of them put off counterfeit new milld money

Tho Gaile

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