3144 ANNUAL REGISTER, = 1815. 
put into strong boxes, and placed 
in, the strong room, and locked 
up. They are taken in and de- 
livered out, by one of the clerks 
in the Stamp-office, who keeps 
the key of the room. Witness 
states, that they never, on any oc~- 
casion, stamp any labels without 
being attached to the parchment, 
and, of course, that the stamps 
are never issued in a separate 
state. There is a die for 2/. Wit- 
ness then examined the stamp on 
the deed, and stated that the nu- 
merals II and the word Pounds 
were not a genuine impression 
from the die used by the Commis- 
sioners, but were forged and coun- 
terfeit, but that the device on the 
King’s arms and the rest of the 
stamps, were genuine. Witness 
proceeded to point out the differ- 
ence betwixt the impression of the 
genuine stamp and that affixed to 
this deed, which consisted in this : 
In the genuine stamp the whole 
of the impression was struck at 
‘once, both the King’s arms and 
the letters ; but in the stamp on 
the deed now produced it was evi- 
dent that the numeral letters II 
had been impressed by one instru- 
ment, and the word Poundsby an- 
other, and these marks had been 
made upon a genuine stamp, from 
which the original letters had been 
by some means erased. He also 
looked at the back of the deed, 
and he said it was clear it had not 
beenstampedat the office, because 
if it had, the impression would 
have penetrated the parchment, 
and made an indentation thereon. 
Witness stated that the stamps 
were under the management of 
the Commissioners. Nothing ma- 
terial occurred on his cross-exa- 
mination; he repeated that the 
King’s arms on the blue paper 
had come from the stamp-office 
at one time or other, but that 
both the numerals II, and the 
word Pounds, were forged. 
William Kappen, Esq. Secre- 
tary to the Stamp-office, also 
proved the fact of the stamp be- 
ing a forged one. 
Mr. John Atkinson is an attor- 
ney at Leeds; he stated that he 
received a great number of arti- 
cles from Farmery, the consta- 
ble; received the dies onthe 13th 
of February, and the stamps at the 
same time, which were in a box 
now on the table; he had kept 
them in his custody, locked up, 
ever since the time he received 
them, and they were now in the 
same state they were delivered to 
him, Witness also received from 
Robert Barr the contents ofa par- 
cel, which was sealed up, and 
which consisted of a great variety 
of blue stamps for deeds. 
Mr. Butterworth was examined 
by Mr. Park; he stated that he 
was an engraver at Leeds, that he 
was employed by a person whom 
he afterwards knew to be Jaques, 
to engrave for him on a copper- 
platethe words, This Indenture, in 
German text characters; he did 
not give his name, or say on whose 
account hecame. The engraving 
was executed according to his or- 
der, and Jaques came ftom time 
to time for impressions from the 
plate, which were taken upon 
parchment. Witness afterwards 
made another plate for Jaques, 
with the same words, but in less 
characters, and from this plate im- 
‘pressions were from time to time 
taken, by order of Jaques. The 
first plate was engraved about 
June, 1810; witness kept the 
