Thomas Cartmall: The Information of Thomas Cartmall 6 March 1701/2

Kingston sup: Hull} ss The Information of Thomas Cartmall of Kingston upon Hull in the county of the Town of Kingston upon Hull Labourer now a prisoner in Hull Goal taken and sworn the sixth day of March 1701 before Simon Sisson Esquire and Robert Carlile Esquire Aldermen of the said town and two his Majesties Justices of the peace within the said town and County.

This Informant saith that he having been for some years past acquainted with one Thomas Gott of this Town of Kingston upon Hull Labourer this Informant has seen him for this three years past at severall times Coine money and counterfeit the currant coine of this Realm and hath seen the Said Thomas Gott Coine sixpences shillings and half Crowns (butt he could not make the letters on the edge of the Rim) of bad and base Metall Block Tin, and Pewter melted and mixed together over a Torph fire and then burnt Alabaster in the fire & bruised it to powder and sifted it, and in a Mould cast the aforesaid money taking first the Impression of the peice he coyned on the Said sifted Alebaster, And this Deponent saith that he has seen Richard Rudderforth of Kingston upon Hull aforesaid house-Carpenter - - - coyn money and Counterfeit the coyn of this Realm of such like Mettall as it aforesaid about eight or nine pound at a time about a year ago and John Gibson of Skitby in the County of York Labourer do the like at the same time in Rudderforths house and Susannah the wife of Thomas Gott aforesaid the like, and Robert Wilson of Kingston upon Hull victualler the like and counterfeited Dutch money of their base Mettall & in whose house the Gang used to meet in to coyn bad money and this Informant saith that one Marshall a Joyner called cock Marshall that lives in white-fryer gate maketh their moulds to cast their coyn in, and this Informant saith that he had seen John Turner & Matthew Hansley of Newland in the Said county of York have the like instruments or Tools for coyning as he hath seen the former coine with and being in their company in an Alehouse in Newland they pull.d the said tools out of their severall pocketts & owned to this Informant they coined with them and then shewed this Informant three baggs of counterfeit mony which they said they had coyned and would carry with them to stackshaw bank fair in the north, and buy beasts and Sheep with, And this Informant saith that the said Turner and Hansley told him one Naylor of Newland aforesaid also counterfeited the coyne of this Realm                                                   his ⊥mark                                              Thomas Cartmall Taken & sworn the day and year above before{Simon Sisson Robert Carlill