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 board, then put this narrow plate on the note; his mistress (Mrs. Booth) then put the boards in on one side between the rollers, and Mrs. Chidlow pulled them out on the other; the notes were then hung on strings to dry, near the fire: he saw Booth using the punch with letters and figures on the Thursday night before he was taken, and the narrow plates were used between two and three o'clock that same afternoon—the narrow plates were used first, and then Booth used the punch, but Mrs. Booth and Mrs. Chidlow were at work with the lines at the same time that Booth was at work with the punch.

Cross-examined by Mr. .—Is no scholar; knows the difference between printing and writing—he saw these printed, so knows them to be printing, he could not otherwise tell if it was printing or writing—he could not tell if the punches were put on printing or writing if he had not seen them printed, nor if the note was a bank note.

Re-examined.—There was no writing or printing on the papers before the copper-plates were used—there was immediately after.

Examined by the Judge.—It was Thursday before the Monday that the officers took Booth, and in the room over the parlour, that Booth was using the punch to put marks on the notes, and the two women were at work at the press at the same time, and in the same room.

Samuel Holloway, a Birmingham constable, searched Booth's house on the 16th March, he found a small frame with letters and figures in it; that shewn [which was No. 15223] he believes to be the same, he gave it to Mr. Baker, it lay in the front part of the chamber, next to the fold yard, he observed a board in the floor, which he took up, and this frame was under it.

Cross-examined by Mr. .—He believes all the people in the house were detained; witness was not left in the house.

Re-examined.—He did not take Ingeleys' into custody; Chillingworth and Dale were left at the house.

Mr. Edward Baker, is one of the constables of Birmingham, was at Booth's on the 16th March, he received the stamp or frame from Samuel Holloway, that produced is the same; on the bench to which the rollers were affixed he found three blank notes, one of them, that which lay