What is most surprising is, that the Counterfeiters, with
all their care and exactness, have entirely omitted numbering their
Bills; at least none of those are number'd which are seiz'd. Was
this Infatuation, or were they afraid they should not number them
right?
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, December 19, 1732
Yesterday, being Market Day, Watt who was concern'd in the
Counterfeit Money, as mentioned in one of our late Papers, receiv'd
part of his Punishment, being whipt, pilloried and cropt. He behaved
so as to touch the Compassion of the Mob, and they did not fling at
him (as was expected) neither Snow-balls nor any Thing else. We hear
that Grindal, the Importer of the Bills, and chief Person concern'd,
was taken in the Jersies, but afterwards made his Escape. In his
Pocket-Book was found the Account of Charge, so much to the Printer,
so much for engraving the Plates, so much for Paper, &c.
_The Pennsylvania Gazette_, January 11, 1732/3
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Previous question, to be answer'd at every meeting.
Have you read over these queries this morning, in order to
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`1. Have you met with any thing in the author you last read,
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