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TitleFRESHFIELDS PAPERS RELATING TO FORGED AND OTHER IMITATION BANK NOTES: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPALLY CONCERNED WITH FORGED NOTES CIRCULATING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
Date18 Jun 1845 - 2 Nov 1860
Description1845 Forged notes at Oundle, Halifax and Westminster.
1846 Forged 1814 £1 and £2 bank-note plates found at Birmingham. Forged note at Lichfield. Informant from France.
1847 Suspected forger arrested at King's Lynn.
1848 Forged note at Kidderminster.
1849 Forged Newcastle Branch notes. Convicted informant. Forged notes at Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Bath and St Albans.
1850 Forged notes at Walsall and Nottingham.
1851 Forged notes at Neath.
1852 Rewards for information.
1853 Forged notes at Bristol, Dawlish and Rowell Fair (Northamptonshire). Welfare, a convicted forger. Arrests for uttering, Guernsey. Rivalry of the City and 'New' police forces in a forgery case.
1854 Humphrys and Wilson convicted for uttering at Westminster, 1853. Forged notes at Knaresborough.
1855 Forged notes at Glasgow. Dowell and Lloyd, convicted informants. Forged new style £5 notes at Stockport and Derby. Policy of rewards for arresting utterers.
1856 Sampson, Beard and Riley, convicted informants. Forged notes at Deal and in Anglesey.
1857 Forged notes in Ireland. Forgery enquiries in London, West Central.
1858 Forged notes, subject of correspondence with Sir R Mayne
1859 Police claims for rewards for arresting forgers, Thompson, Freitag and Bohur, in London, 1856. Forged notes at Nottingham. Informants, London and Birmingham.
1860 Forged notes at Bath, Goodwood, Chesterfield, Durham and Edinburgh. City police statements on named forgers.
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