Charles Price

Forger and fraudster, 1723-1786

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A new edition. Being a more minute and particular account of that consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, otherwise Patch, Many Years A Stock-Broker And Lottery-Office-Keeper In London and Westminster: In this Edition the whole of his various Forgeries and Frauds are circumstantially related; together with his Origin, and all the material Occurrences of his Life, equally disgraceful to human Nature, till he began that desperate Undertaking of Forgeries on the Bank of England. In the carrying on of which, he, in the most artful and surprising Manner, baffled every Mode of Detection, set on foot by the Directors and the Magistrates of Bow-Street, for a Series of Six Years. With this Edition is given, as a Frontispiece, an exact Representation of his Person, in the Disguise he wore when he negotiated his first Parcel of Counterseit Bank Notes, in the Year 1780, and likewise another Portrait of him in his usual Dress
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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The Eventful life, and wonderful history of that most notoriuos character, swindler, and forger, Charles Price Commonly called old patch, &c. &c. cotaining a full account of his unparalleled frauds, impenetrable disguises, and ingenius forgeries, during the term of six years, on the Bank of England, and the public at large.
Date: [1800?]
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Memoirs of a social monster or, the history of Charles Price, ... commonly called Old Patch. Containing an accurate account of the astonishing frauds and ingenious forgeries of that truly great man, ..
Date: 1790
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A new edition. Being a more minute and particular account of that consummate adept in deception, Charles Price, other wise Patch, ... In this edition the whole of his various forgeries and frauds are circumstantially related; ... With this edition is given, ... an exact representation of his person, in the disguise he wore ... and likewise another portrait ..
Date: 1786
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Memoirs of a social monster or, the history of Charles Price, Otherwise Bolingbroke, otherwise Johnson, otherwise Parks, otherwise Wigmore, otherwise Brank, otherwise Wilmott, otherwise Williams, otherwise Schutz, otherwise Trevors, otherwise Polton, otherwise Taylor, otherwise Powel, &c. &c. &c. and commonly called Old Patch. Containing an accurate account of the astonishing fraud and ingenious forgeries of that truly great man, On the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for a Series of Six Years. Including A faithful Detail of his Devices and Depredations on Society for a Period of Fifty-Five Years.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]