Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
14th October 1730
Mary
Richards , alias
Dewd, alias
Devedy, alias
Meercliff
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, of St. Andrew's Holbourn
, was indicted for
feloniously uttering and vending one Deer-Skin dress'd, and stamp'd with a false counterfeit Stamp, knowing it to be forg'd and counterfeit
.
She was likewise indicted a second time for
feloniously offering to Sale 6 Sheep skins, mark'd with a false counterfeit Stamp, knowing the Stamp to be Counterfeit
.
It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Prisoner did sell one Deer-skin mark'd with a counterfeit Stamp; but it not being proved that she knew them to be false and counterfeit, she was
acquitted
.