Wilts Ss The InformaionInformation of Rob:t Lawrence of Calne in yethe said county of Wilts Glazier who upon his oath saith

That Robert Hort of Calne in this county Malster did about 3 quarters of a year ago in his said Robert Horts dwelling house att Calne aforesaid shew to this informant a base & counterfeit peice in imitation of a 5. shilling peice of the currant coine of this realm. and at yethe same time told this informant ytthat yethe said peice was of his the SdSaid Robert Horts own making, & that he had for severall years before the late regulation of the coyn made counterfeit money and particularly french three pences, and that two being afterwards att the house of one William Clerk of Studly yethe SdSaid Robt: Hort did then and there deliver to this inform.ttinformant that or such another counterfeit peice and desired this informant to offer it in payment for yethe reckoning there, (it being a publick house) and this informant farther saith that about seven weeks since he being in a chamber in yethe house of yethe said Robt: Hort did in yethe window of yethe SdSaid chamber see about 3. or 4.£ by tale of counterfeit money in imitation of shillings & crown peices of the currant coyn of this realm, that that the greatest part of it was at that time very black, butt he did see the SdSaid Robt: Hort take one of those peices and rubbing it with dirt did bring it to a colour like silver, and also take severall of them and break them with his fingers into severall peices, yethe metall what ever it was, being very brittle, and this Informant further sayth that he did at the same time see in yethe SdSaid chamber a wooden box with a fine powder in it wchwhich seemed to this informant to be chalk and that the SdSaid Box & chalk were for casting of counterfeit money or some such use as this informant beleives, there being a hole at one end for the metall to be poured in att, and that too, appearing to have been burnt by the hott metall, and for that the SdSaid Robt: Hort hath been used frequently to borrow a melting laddle of this informant and this inform:ttinformant further saith that he did att the time that he was in the SdSaid Robt: Horts chamber as is aforesdaforesaid see yethe SdSaid Robt: Hort take one of the peices made in imitation of shillings and with a knife cutt & make the grainings round about the edges of the same peice and this informant saith ytthat the SdSaid Robt: Hort when he shewed yethe first 5 shilling peice as is aforesaid, did tell this informant that he should come and see him makecoyn money and make some peices himself that he might be as far concerned in it as yethe said Robert Hort, and that then neither of them could hang one another being only two concerned and farther ytthat he did find in and bring away from yethe said Robert Horts house a peice of mettall like silver & yethe peice made in imitation of a Shillings yethe graining of the edge of part whereof he this informant did see the SdSaid Robert Hort make as is aforesdaforesaid and delivered them both to Edward Townsend of Calne aforesaid Grocer Robt: Lawrence Jurat 25th die octob: anno 1703 corā me Hen: Chivers