Numb. 310
Mercurius Politicus,
COMPRISING
The Sum of Forein Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on Foot in the three Nations
OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
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Horat. de
Ar. Poet:
From Thursday May 15: to Thursday May 22. 1656.
Whitehall, May 13.
IT pleased his Highness to pass the Bill for a Commission for
the Discovery of fraudulent and counterfeit Debentures. The
Commissioners names are as followeth, viz. Edward Cresset,
Thomas Gorge, Robert Pelham, Thomas Creswel, Robert Shapcot,
Esquires and Francis Tompson Gent. The place of their meeting
is to be in some convenient room in Worcester-House.
The intent of their Commission is to find out the great and notable
Frauds and Cheats which have been and are daily practised and committed
by divers wicked persons in counterfeiting Certificates of Debts,
Debentures, and Bills commonly called Publick-Faith-Bills, and Bonds
commonly called Worcester house-Bonds, on pretence as if great sums
of money had been due to them from the State; by which counterfeit