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uppermost; was marked No. 15223, the other two were without letters or numbers, this was in the room over the parlour. The Ingeleys were not taken into custody till the Friday, they were in the interim employed in carrying out manure, and might have gone where they pleased, they did not sleep in the house to his knowledge. Mr. Baker here produced some cakes of printing ink, which he said were found on the 17th, he received them from James Devis, and has had them ever since; the same day he also found some wire, which he produced, it was in the garret over that chamber, and in the window of the chamber he found a printing boss, the use of which he understands to be to put the ink upon the plate.
Thomas Dale followed Mr. Chirm, on the Friday, into the field adjoining the rick yard, and received from him three copper plates, witness marked them, those produced are the same; they are plates, one for 10l. notes, one for 5l. and one for 1l.
James Devis assisted in searching Booth's house on the 17th, he found some cakes of printing ink in the bureau in the parlour; he gave them to Mr. Baker.
Mr. William Bridges is paper maker to the Bank of England; he has seen the instrument called a hog, and the sheet of wire produced, the hog is on the same principle with the one used by witness, but worked in a different manner to wash the paper and pulp; the alum and calves ears are used to make size, the alum is used in the size to harden the paper; the frame produced with waved lines and mould, is an imitation, though a bad one, of what is used for the Bank paper, it produces the waving water-mark, and the words One and Bank of England, all of which are in that frame, and in the blanks now shewn to him [part of the blanks found in the trunk]; he believes he marked those blanks, had seen them before, but on re-examining them he finds the initials are not his, but Mr. William Brewer's, the letters W. B. being his own initials, at first deceived him; he examined the papers at Mr. Chirm's, they were made from that mould, he has made some from it, with the pulp found at prisoner's; the bank note in question, No. 21099, is not made from that mould, nor is that which was found in the chimney, and those two notes were each made from different moulds, and are of different descriptions of paper.
