John Bates: Untitled, 8 November 1698

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John Bates of Amblecott in the County of Stafford Baker on his oath says that he hath for severall yeares past known Thomas Bodely now or latly living at Stourbridge in Worcestershire Watchmaker and Goldsmith and did at Stourbridge see the said Boddely about a year and a half since make the nikt of an Edging Mill for edging Counterfeit Shillings and also make a sett of Letters for edging $\frac{1}{2}$ Crowns and that some time before Sir James Tyde last was 12 months at Boddely's then house in Sturbridge which he rented of M^r. Blick and over against M^r. Foley's house then he produced to this Informant a While Counterfeit 20^s. broad piece and a White counterfeit French Pistoll which he in this Informants sight guilded over and weighing the broad piece it appeared full weight with a broad piece he paid away for good and gave this Informant 8^s. out of it but what he did with the pistoll this Informant knows not

John Bate

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