Elizabeth Raven: The Further Information of Elizabeth Raven 7 July 1703
Middx Westmer } Ss The further Information of Elizab: Raven taken upon oath this 7th day of July 1703
Who saith that she did receive thirty counterfeit shillings from Jane Salt, now in custody in new prison to putt off, and was to have for her so doing after the rate of five shillings in the pound allowed her from the said Salt, and further deposeth that the very counterfeit money that was found in her Lodging in Shorts garden and now in the contables hands was the same she had from Jane Salt about the beginning of Aprill last upon the terms aforesaid and that she this deponent hath about the beginning of Aprill last seen the said Salt Edge or mark counterfeit shillings with a Notched knife in imitation of the currant coyn of this Realm, And the Said Elizab: Raven further upon her oath saith, that she hath allso Received Counterfeit Shillings of Cicilia Labree to the number of about 20 for the issuing of which she the Said Labree was to allow this Deponent after the rate of 5s in the pound, and shee further upon her oath saith, that she dothn verily beleive the Said counterfeit money to be made & finished by the Said Jane Salt and Cicilia Labree, and that she had heard them often talk of the same and that they were to carry the Quere Cole (as they calld' it) to severall customers abroad butt where this Deponent doth not know, and further saith that she hath heard Samll Tibbs who is father in Law to the aforesaid Labree say that once they had gott two thousand pound together and that his daughter Labree did design to gett a 1000.£ more by coyning and then to sett their coach butt that unfortunately they were nipt in the budd, & further saith that she had heard Mrs Labree say the same capt Jurat ann: et die supdict: corā me Rogero Smith Eliz: her O mark Raven
Source
MINT 15/17/452, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK7 July 1703, c. 335 words.