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The Information of Elizabeth Groom wife of Thorp
Groom of Bare ally in Seacoal Lane in St. Sepulchres
parrish th. day of Aprill 1699
She saith That t.
the Gatehouse brought to the t.
Counterfeit shillings and six pences wrapt up in a brown paper
and slipping it in the paper into her husband's hand said mr. r.
went away and her husband opening the paper found in it
5s. of new counterfeit money And that a few daies before
she did see in the hand of the said Dyer a long narrow board with
a Slitt in the Midle of one of the sides the length of the board was t.
it was to make an Edger by putting a file into the slitt And
that some daies after (but before the above menc
of the Crown) the said Dyer shewed the t.
counterfeit Milld llsr
Dutch money amongst them and asking the t.
were not good things said that he would do them better yet so
that nobody should refuse them and being of a sweat
said that he had been hard at work and that his shirt was
on his back and that the Charcoal fire made him faint because
he had not used it so long and that he was going on the other wise the
water to buy some Metall at the Copper house of
the man And a litle before he the said Dyer told the t.
he hoped he was not at work again and litle thought he was
and the t.
Warden for money to sett up he replyd.
been wise work indeed And the t.
said Dyer confess that he has coyned at the King's head by
Billingsgate and at other places before he was an
evidence And that on Wednesday night last Sarah
Dobson a lodger in the house of Mrs. Hayes at the sign of
the Cradle in Shandois street brought to the t.
six shillings in counterfeit shillings and sixpences and had
3s. of good money for the same. And that the t.
representing that they were dear she replyd.
(meaning Nurse Ha
could afford them no cheaper and the last night t.
at night the said mrs Dobson brought 5s more countr
money and the Deponent's husband gave her 2s 6d for
the same and presently after Mr Saker and others to
whom the t.
apprehended the said mrs Dobson who imediatly declared
that Nurse Hartley made the same in her's the said Dobson's
room and that the Tooles for making the same were to be
found there and then the t.
with the said mr Saker and others to search
Tools found there in a hand basket and some counterfeit
money in a Drawer and some pieces of Metall to make the
some broke off from e
the baskt.t.t.
the said Nurse Hartley brought t.7s. of counterfeit
money not yet coloured to the house of the said mrs
Dobson and offerd
said mrs Dobson refused to buy the same and the said
Nurse Hartley at the same time telling the
Mrs Dobson that she had a room in a place as safe
the said Dobson refused at that time to goe with her
though she afterwds.
the mark
Eliz Groome