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 Friday following he found in a field adjoining the rick yard, a plate for throwing off bank notes, it was shewn him by Richard Ingeley, and was near the hedge in the barn close, it was buried about nine inches or a spade graft below the surface; Richard Ingeley said he had planted it by Booth's direction, and shewed witness the place, and witness dug it up, and afterwards marked it. The plate now shewn is the same plate, it is a copper plate, and marked with Ch. in the corner.

William Daniel Brownell, keeper of the prison in Bordesley, adjoining Birmingham, assisted in searching Booth's house on the 16th and several successive days; he saw Chillingworth get in at the garret window, he (witness) had broke the glass of the parlour window, and stood outside of it when Chillingworth was getting in at the garret window; witness saw a ladder put through the trap door into the parlour, and Elizabeth Chidlow came down it, and was almost immediately followed by Booth—Chillingworth had got in before Booth came down into the parlour, witness had entirely demolished the glass in the parlour window, the bars it was impossible for him to break; Booth began to unfasten the door, and then witness went round to meet him, thinking he might mean to escape—Linwood and he then went into the parlour. [The witness was proceeding to describe his going into the chamber, and what he saw there, but it was stated to be a repetition of what had been proved by Linwood and Chillingworth, there, fore the Counsel for the prosecution omitted that part of the examination, but the note found in the chamber was now shewn to witness.]–He believed that was the note found in the chamber, but he did not mark it, he directed Chillingworth to mark it. On the 17th they again searched the parlour, and Chillingworth brought several pieces of paper out of the parlour chimney, and gave them to witness, who has had them ever since in his possession—in paper are the words ONE and BANK OF ENGLAND, made in the paper not marked in ink, there are also waved lines. This witness also corroborated Mr. Linwood as to the finding brass wire both round and flat in the granary on the 16th.

Gideon Taylor was assisting in the search at Booth's on the 16th; he was in the lumber room. Clay and Linwood were with him; he found the brass wire frame on the beam