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which could be worked by women as well as men, it not requiring that degree of strength which some of the other machines which would be shewn to them did require.—Mr. Puller then stated the acts done by Booth, his directions for planting the different articles, &c. nearly as stated by Mr. Jervis on the first trial, and that Booth and Chidlow, and one other, were the persons found in the parlour; and if Chidlow was merely a domestic servant of Booth's, how came she to be found with him in that part of the house which was fortified and set apart for the carrying on those manufactories of notes and coins.
Dorothy Ingeley proved her going to the prisoner's house with information that the runners were coming, as before.
Richard Ingeley had worked several years for Booth, but only for a constancy since Christmas, and he had slept in the house only five weeks before the 16th of March: Elizabeth Chidlow was in the house as one of the family, when he went at Christmas; he has been employed with Booth in the chamber over the parlour—he and Booth, and others, slept there; there was a machine in that chamber like that upon the table—he has seen Chidlow and Mrs. Booth at work with it; Chidlow turned it on one side and Mrs. Booth on the other—they had boards and cloths, with plates, and pieces of paper like Bank notes—they put the plate on the board and cloth, and then the paper on the plate, and covered it with another board and cloth, then Mrs. Booth put them in on one side the press between the rollers—they turned the rollers round, and Chidlow took the boards out on the other side; he has seen them so at work several times, but cannot ascertain the particular times—the last time he saw them at work was on the Thursday before Booth was taken up—they were then using the small plates or lines on things like bills; they began to work between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, and between four and five witness went and lay on the bed, leaving them will at work; while witness was in the room, Booth was employed with the punch with figures on, and putting those figures on the notes after they had nsed the lines to them, and the bills or notes were then hung on strings near the fire to dry. Witness then proved, as before, Booth's giving him directions to plant a plate, and his shewing the plate to Chillingworth on the 20th of March.
