John Bates: Untitled

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Iohn Bates formerly exam^d being further examin^d this 6^th. March 169$\frac{8}{9}$ sayes that abo^t. Iuly 97 he did see Thomas Boddily now Prisoner in Somersett Gaol at his own house in Stourbridge in Worcest^rshire coyns Counterfeit Mill'd shillings of K Wills Coyn and abo^t. the 23^d same month did at the same house coyn 10^li in Counterfeit mill^d shillings of K Cha: the 2^d. K Iames the 2^d. + K William's Coyn which money he carry^d and put off (as he told this Exam^t.) at Bristoll Fair, and that the sd Boddilly did at the same house make an Edging Mill for shill^s. which this Exam^t. did see him at work upon and another Witness whom this Exam^t is able to produce did see him working thereon which mill Boddily delivered this Exam^t. and is the same Mill with which a Shilling formerly seized upon Henry Dixon Prisoner in the Gaol there was milld and the same Mill was by Boddily and this Exam^t. afterwards hid and now is (as he believes) under a Timber Plank on the outside of the East part of the Building belonging to the {buil} Ring of the Oat Mill near to this Examinant's Dwelling house at Amblecott

Iohn Bate

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