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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 2

The first bank-note forgery was committed for Love's sake. Richard William Vaughan, a solicitor's clerk, wished to marry his employer's daughter. One of the conditions imposed was that he should produce £1000 and settle half of it upon his wife to be. He took a month's leave of absence, presumably to obtain the required money from his mother, but instead, spent the time in making an engraved impression of a £20 Bank of England note. With .50 of these sham notes, he presented himself at the appointed time, and the marriage arrangements vrerQ proceeded with. Unfortunately, he required some ready money, and put two of the false notes into circulation. They were promptly challenged and Vaughan arrested. What was to have been his wedding day lie spent in the condemned cell, and he .suffered the extreme penalty at Tyburn in April, 1758.