Robert Mayor: The Information of Robert Mayor 21 January 1700/1
ditto SsThe Informaion of Rofbert Mayor taken upon oath this 21.st of Janry 1700.
Who saith that after John Marshall had apprehended one James Massey as ye Sd James was going into the house of Mr Carew the Con.ble in Drury layn, he saw ye said James Massey dropp a paper at the door of ye said Carew, wch paper the said Carew took upp, and opening it found therin a peice of false and counterfeit Money made in the im̄itaion, likeness and Similitude of a Spanish pistole, And further this Informant upon his Oath Saith, that he being present when the said Con.ble Search't the said Massey the Sd Constable took out of one of his said breeches pocketts another paper, in wch paꝑ was also another such peice of Money wch was false and Counterfeit as aforesaid. Jur coram me Robert Major Jos: Bennett.
Source
MINT 15/17/305, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK21 Jan 1700, c. 146 words.