Ann Tomkins: The Informations of Ann Tomkins wife of Samuel Tomkins

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The Information of ann Tomkins wife of Samuell Tomkins

Who saith that she hapened to be a servant to one Eliz Peirce about Febry 1696 who then lived in a house near West Smithfield Barrs London in which house there then also lived one Thomas Lee a Silver smith who then and there togeather with the said Eliz Peirce did Coyn sixpences shillings and half Crownes to the value of Three hundred poundes in old money and this Informant sayth that she did see the said Elizabeth Peirce and Thomas Lee actually stamp the half crowns and cast the shillings and sixpences in Flaskes and that they told this Informant afterwards that they had dispensed of the greatest part of the said three hundred pounds in the Exchecquer at Westminster which they paid in there in baggs sealed up and that they had a Friend belonging to the Exchecquer that received the same without opening the baggs or looking whether it was good or bad money but what their said Friend's name was this Informant doth not know

Ann Thomkins

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Note that Mrs Peirce is a Goldsmith and keeps a shop next Charterhouse Lane and by porters block near West Smithfield and Lee lives with her under colour of her apprentice

West a Butchers apprentice in the same house has heard Lee confess something of coyning