Thomas Cartmall: The Information of Thomas Cartmall 6 March 1701/2

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 15/17/422, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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|Kingston sup: Hull} ss| The Informaion of Thomas Cartmall of Kingston upon Hull in y^e county of the Town of Kingston upon Hull Labourer now a prisoner in Hull Goal taken and sworn y^e sixth day of March 1701 before Simon Sisson Esq^r. and Robert Carlile Esq^r. Aldermen of y^e said town and two his Ma^ties Justices of y^e peace within y^e said town and County.

This Informant saith that he having been for some years past acquainted with one Thomas Gott of this Town of Kingston upon Hull Labourer this Inform^t has seen him for this three years past at severall times Coine money and counterfeit this|e| currant coine of this Realm and hath seen y^e S^d Thomas Gott Coine sixpences shillings and half Crowns (butt he could not make y^e letters on y^e edge of y^e Rim) of bad and base Metall Block Tin, and Pewter melted and mixed together over a Torph fire and then burnt Alabaster in the fire & bruised it to powder and sifted it, and in a Mould cast y^e aforesaid money taking first y^e Impression of y^e peice he coyned on y^e S^d sifted Alebaster, And this Deponent saith that he has seen Rich^d Rudderforth of Kingston upon Hull aforesaid house-Carpenter - - - coyn money and Counterfeit the coyn of this Realm of such like Mettall as it afores^d about eight or nine pound at a time about a year ago and John Gibson of Skitby in y^e County of York Labourer do y^e like at y^e same time in in Rudderforths house and Susannah y^e wife of Thomas Gott aforesaid y^e like, and Robert Wilson of Kingston upon Hull victualler y^e like and counterfeited Dutch money of their base Mettall & in whose house y^e Gang used to meet in to coyn bad money and this Informant saith that one Marshall a Joyner called cock Marshall that lives in white-fryer gate maketh their moulds to cast y^r coyn in, and this Informant saith that he had seen John Turner & Matthew Hansley of Newland in the S^d county of York have y^e like instruments or Tools for coyning as he hath seen y^e former coine with and being in their company in an Alehouse in Newland they pull.^d y^e said tools out of their severall pocketts & owned to this Informant they coined with them and then shewed this Inform^t three baggs of counterfeit mony which they said they had coyned and would carry with them to stackshaw bank fair in y^e north, and buy beasts and Sheep with, And this Informant saith that the said Turner and Hansley told him one Naylor of Newland aforesaid also counterfeited the coyne of this Realm his ⊥mark Thomas Cartmall Taken & sworn y^e day and year above before{Simon Sisson Robert Carlill