Basil Turton: The Information of Bazill Turton of Wells Street near Wells Close by Goodmans Fields Taylor 8 February 1698/9 Isaac Newton c. 319 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 8 Feb 1698/9, c. 319 words. MINT 15/17/144, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 15/17/144 Basil TurtonTaylorSusana BroadhurstJohn Ignatius LawsonElizabeth LawsonWilliam JohnsonThomas ShawSmith 8 Feb 1698/9 England English Latin Unknown Hand MintClippers, Coiners and Embezzlers Transcribed by Will Scott Metadata amended & document catalogued by Will Scott
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The Informaction of Bazill Turton of Wells street by Wells Close by Goodmans fields Taylor 8 Feby 16989

Saith that abot.about 3 or 4 dayes ago or a week before Mr. Lawson and mrs. Broadhurst and Io Hurson were apprehended and brought before me which was abot.about a month ago Mrs. Lawson the wife of the said Mr Lawson gave the Informt.Informant something wrapt in a Cloth which felt hard and round and bid him give it to Mr. IJohnson when he saw him for her husband wanted it And as the InformtInformant went out of the house he mett the said IJohnson and gave it to him and bid him give it to Mr. Lawson and that one or more dayes after the said persons were apprehended and brought before me as above he and the said IJohnson went to search in a Dunghill by Fleet Ditch for Flasks and Crucible which the said IJohnson ahd his there and IJohnson finding the CruciplesCrucibles gave them to the Informt.Informant and bid him give them to Mrs. Lawson and abot.about 3 dayes after the Informt.Informant and the said IJohnson and Mrs. Lawson went wth.with a Candle and Lanthorn and fire shovell to digg in the Dung hill for the Flaskes but could not find them Bazill Turton Iurat die et anno preedict coram Is Newton The Informt.Informant saith also that abot.about a fortnight ago shehe askt Thomas Shaw a Smith in Wapping by meeting house ally near the Three Compasses to strike some Spanish pistolls and the said Shaw brought a parellparcell of abot.about 10 pistolls ready struck and gave the Informt.Informant two of them for which the Informt.Informant was to give him 12d. a piece and that the sdsaid Shaw then struck another Spanish Pistoll, for the Informt.Informant and the Informt.Informant gave him a Groat for striking out Baz: Turton Iurat die et Anno preedict Coram Is Newton