Katherine Carter: The Deposition of Katherine Carter 24 February 1698/9
The Deposicon of Katherine Carter 24 December {sic}\Feb./ 169
She saith yt. abot. Iune or Iuly last she saw Willm Chaloner cast \a piece of/ Dutch money and finish that and four others which which {sic} he had cast before she sait{h} also yt on the same day she saw the said Will Chaloner cast 15{s} of pewter or a Metall like pewter in imitacon of the Current Coyn of this Realm and that he cast them in a mould of whole earth hardend like Potters ware and cast but one at time and cast ym. all successively in ye same Mould and yt she afterwards saw the said Chaloner clip off the rough edges of the said shillings and after he had finisht them he gave some of them to the Depont. to put off — the Depont. saith also that there came this morning a woman to the Deponent in the name of one Mrs. Scot {sic} who is supposed to be one of Chaloners mistresses and begd of the Deponent not to concern herself agt. Chaloner lest she should do her husband a diskindness and she added that if she this Depont did not concern herself agt. Chaloner the Governmt. could not hurt her husband
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