Middx Westmr } Ss The Information of Ann Raymond of the Parish of St Giless in the fields in the County aforesdaforesaid taken upon oath this 23 day of June anno Dom: 1702

Who upon her oath saith that Martha Tanner doth make it her com̄mmon practice to buy Counterfeit Mill'd money of one John Gall in St Thomas's street next door to yethe sugar loafe and of one Thomas Smith Smith of broad S.t Giles next to a Farriers shop and of one Sackery alias Sacrill at yethe King and Queens heads in Shorts Gardens and of one Bentley in the Cole yard and further saith that the SdSaid Tanner doth buy quantitys of the money aforesdaforesaid of yethe persons aforesdaforesaid allowing them half value of what it represents if it was lawfull and currant coyn of this Kingdome viz sixpence good money for one counterfeit Shilling or fifteen pence good for half a Crown of yethe SdSaid counterfeit coyn, and so in proporionproportion for greater quantitys, and this InformtInformant further saith that the sister of yethe SdSaid Martha Tanner (com̄only call'd bleere-eyed Bess) is privy to her sisters so buying and selling as aforesdaforesaid and that she the SdSaid Bess doth also buy Counterfeit money on the acc:taccount aforesaid on the persons above named and further saith ytthat the said Tanner, Gall, Smith and his wife with severall others whose names this informant doth not well remember, do frequently meet in an evening at MrsMrs Manleys att the sun and Broom in broad St Giles's to buy and sell counterfeit money as aforesaid. capt et jurat an: et die sup:dict: corā me J: Stanley Ann her R Mark Raymond