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The Examinaction of Mary Hill alsalias Yarley 10 Mar: 169
who saith that on May day last abot.about 4 of the clock in the afternoon this Examt.Examinant found in Fanchurch street one and Twenty six pences wrapt up in a piece of paper and took them home to her house at Kidlington in the ꝑparish of Lambeth and of Wednesday last this Examt.Examinant came over the water into the ꝑparish of St. Anns and brought with her one Ellen Cooper a Girle of abotabout 9 yeares old the daughter of one Mr. Cooper a Neighborur of hers formerly in Goodman's fields and as this Examt.Examinant and the sdsaid Girle were going togeather in a street near Soho square the said Girle desired this Examt.Examinant to give her some money to buy a Cake with and this ExamtExaminant did give to the said Girle one of the said Six pences which she found in Fanchurch street as aforesaid with which the said Girle bought a penny Cake and returned the Exchange of the said Six pence to this ExamtExaminant in half pence and farthings and this ExamtExaminant did a litle afterwards upon the same day send the Girle aforesaid to a Chandlers Shop near the said Soho to buy a Loaf of bread either a penny or half penny loaf and gave to the sdsaid Girle another of the said six pences which she this ExamtExaminant found in FanchstChurch as aforesaid to pay for the said bread but the people of the said shop finding the said Sixpence to be a counterfeit one stopt the Girle who telling them that she had the said Six pence of this Examt.Examinant there upon this Examt.Examinant was apprehended and carryed before Sr.Sir Michaell Cole who Committed her a Prisoner to the Gatehouse and the people who apprehended this Examt.Examinant did upon Searching of her find in her custody 19 of the said Six pences and the reason why she sent the Girle with a Sixpence to buy a loaf as aforesaid when she had farthings + half pence was in order to try Whether the said Sixpences were good ones or not and that the reason of her comeing over the water from home was to see one Mrs Brookes a Widdow who lives in Lucknar's Lane near Drury Lane and that she was going to Kidlington aforesaid from the said Luknars Lane when she was apprehended near Soho but why she went that way she does not know And that on Fryday last she
went to see Mr Cooper and his wife of Lemon street in Goodmans fields in order to get them to borrow some money for her and on her return home found the said 6 pences in Fanchurch strstreet as aforesdsaid
Capt. March 10 169 coram Is Newton
the mark of Mary Hill