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fore knows the power they have; that on the table is a cutting out press, and there were in that garret tools for cutting out dollars and 3s. tokens; a quantity of collars, that is, iron rings, the hollow of which is of the size of 5.s 6d. 3s, and 18d, bank tokens were in the garret, these are put on the pieces when they are put in the press, between the dies, and are to prevent the metal spreading from the pressure; there was also a quantity of rolled plated metal, of the thickness of 3s, and 15d, tokens, a bottle of aquafortis, a quantity of cecil or plated crop, which is the waste plated metal after the rounds are taken out, the blanks in which were of the size of 3s, and 18d, tokens; a quantity of pickle, or sharp water, or aquafortis and water in earthen pans, used in cleaning the metal when cut out; a quantity of sawdust used for shaking the metal in when taken out of the sharp water; a small quantity of borax, with silver used in plating the edges of the pieces of metal so cut out; several tools for edging, a large bench of vices, a large lathe for turning to edge or burnish, a quantity of wood chocks, used to knock the coin out of the collars, a gilding pan, a gilding hat and gilding brush, a pair of large shop bellows, a shop hearth of brick to which the bellows were fixed, a casting tub, with casting sand in it, casting moulds and boards, and casting tongs for taking casting pots out of fire, some casting pots or crucibles, a quantity of copper melted down in pots, quantity of tin cans, nearly covered with dirt, some of the same sort of cans were found in a hedge bank, quantity of lead and of tin that had been melted in casting pots, a quantity of kneading pans, some forcing dies used in the press, they are blanks, bottle of gunpowder, quantity of bullets and bullet mould, a quantity of files and handles, a large piece of woollen cloth, some blank sizes without impressions, punches and drills, a small ladle used to melt gold and quicksilver, a brace to bore holes with, a mortar and pestle, a brick furnace for casting, and a quantity of coaks.—In the chamber were a quantity of blanks cut out, of the size of 18d. tokens—[here the cutting out press was worked in the Court, to shew its action on the metal, the pieces there cut out were of the size of 3s. tokens; the machine for edging was also used].—Mr. Linwood said, the notches were made by putting in one groove, and the edges were smoothened by the smooth groove.
