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The Informact Andrew
Holborn in the County of iddx
Augt. 1698
Who saith that t.
with one Mr.
St Andrews and this t.
one Edward Ivy who is now a Prisoner in Newgate and the
said Gibbons hath severall times owned that he put off &
payed away the said counterfeit money as good and at the same
time and place the said Gibbons used to bring severall su
of broad money and sold it after the rate of 3s or 3s. 6d in the
pound proffitt for the same to one
of the Gatehouse r.
stand by the said Hickes while he clipped the said money
and then reced
Hickes used to give to one Thomas t.s
assist him in clipping of broad money and one Mary Hewett
daughter in law of the said Hickes used likewise to assist her
father in clipping of broad moneyt.
ago one Robt.
Goldsmith used to clipp broad money for the said hickes
and hickes used to give him 6d
for him and Hickes used to weigh the money that
he let the said Mr reced
and gave Hickes after the rate of s
And that t
to give notice to the said Edward Ivy that his house would be
searcht upon the t.
out of the way and the said Edward Ivy used to give to the
severall summs of money for giving him private notice as aforesaid
and the said Gibbons used to give Hickes notice that his house would
be searcht upon the t
money for so doing and this t.
was going to send work to the said Hickes that he intended to search
his house with the assistance of a Conble
unlawfull thing in it he could not conceal it by the reason of the Conble
being in company with him and that this t
company with the said Gibbons at his own house at Charing Cross
the said Gibbons said that her father Edward Ivy aforesd
the Secretary of State that he had given to the said Gibbons
the sum of fifty poundes to keep his councell and said God Damne
him if Ivy did not give him 50 li he would hangue him or words
Mary Townsend