Nicholas Blunt was a Counterfeit Crank; that is, he pretended to be a sick person who went by the name of Nicholas Genings. The man pictured here (in and out of disguise) was caught, and “whip’t at a cart’s tail” through London. An entry from 'Old England: A Pictorial Museum'. Link…
2 comments:
Thanks for the link :-)
From the accounts I've read, Mr. Blunt escaped capture more than once, so the whipping was at least in part out of frustration I think, and not only because of the fraud!
Liam (editor of From Old Books)
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