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RefNoKHCP/1/10/8
AltRefNoHCP/1/10/8
TitleDeposition before J.P.: Circulating counterfeit coins at St. Ives Market Mary, wife of John Dean of Pidley, labourer, stated that she had sold in St, Ives Market eggs to Mary, wife of Thomas Bird, of Coventry, Jeweller; Mary Bird tendered a counterfeit shilling and received 6d change. Charles Jacobs, Huntingdon, corroborated the above and Ellen Holmes stated that in the same market she sold ½ lb butter to Mary Adams to whom she gave 2/0½ in change for a counterfeit halfcrown (corroborated by Charles Jacobs, who had also seen Adams buy ¼ peek of potatoes from William Miller with a false coin. Elizabeth Edwards, widow, butcher stated that Mary Adams tendered to her a counterfeit 2/6 in payment for 6½d mutton.
Date1824
CreatorNameHuntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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