Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

14th October 1730

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Mary Richards , alias Dewd, alias Devedy, alias Meercliff proceedingsdefend , 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 .




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