Sweeps and Shillings: Essex Publicans Catch Counterfeiters – 1832
Chelmsford Chronicle – Friday 31 August 1832 UTTERERS OF COUNTERFEIT COIN. James Revenhall, Richard Beven, and Robert Carter, were charged as common utterers of base coin, having been detected in passing counterfeit half-crowns at Ramsden and Downham. James Hitchin said he kept the Hare and Hounds, at Ramsden Heath. About twelve o’clock on Tuesday, the […]


