Amy Angell: The Information of Amy the wife of Richard Angell 20 November 1705
Middx Ss. The Information of Amy the Wife of Richd Angell taken upon Oath this 20.th day of Nov.er 1705.
Who saith that she knows Sr Richard Blackham and his Lady and that the said Sr Richard did invite her Said Husband and desired him to bring this Deponent and their Daughter Sarah to his house in Kentish town about 2. months agoe, and accordingly they went thither, and saith that the Said Sr Richd did furnish her said husband with money, to buy and procure mettall and other materialls in Order to cast and counterfeit Dutch Skillings, which he her Said Husband did accordingly. & that She hath seen the Said Sr Richd Assist, by amending repaireing & blowing the fire whilst her said Husband Richd Angell was casting dutch Skillings as aforesaid, And that the Furnace in which the Mettall was melted, was of Sr Richards own procurement and likewise that the Flasks in which the same was moulded and cast, were provided by the same Sr Richard, And further saith, that she this Informant hath seen the lady Blackham (wife to Sr Richard( assist about the fire as her husband Sr Richard had done as aforesaid & She hath seen the said Lady Blackham rubb, dress and Whiten the Skillings so cast as aforesaid And that Sr Richard had the Skillings when finished as aforesaid Amy her W mark Angell Capt et jurat anno et suꝑdict coram me J. Stanley
Source
MINT 15/17/517, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK20 November 1705, c. 243 words.