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  • The two women were later pardoned and their sentence reduced to a year's imprisonment.
Elizabeth and Jane Baines were convicted of forging this two pound bank note and were sentenced to death, 1818 [front]
  • In this letter, the mayor of Carmarthen is told that Mr John Lees, an Inspector of Bank notes at the Bank of England, is being sent to Carmarthen to assist the investigation in the case against Elizabeth and Jane Baines. Transcription: London 13th Dec. 1817 Sir The Government of the Bank of England has desired us to acknowledge the Rect. of your Letter of the 11th inst. & to thank you for your prompt attention to the subject to which it refers. We have given directions to W. John Lees, one of the Inspectors of Bank Notes at the Bank of England, to set out immediately for Carmarthen to assist in the investigation of the Case, & in collecting thee requisite evidence to bring the offenders to Justice. Mr. Lees has had great experience in ___ of this kind, and we have given him full instructions, so that you will find him a very useful assistant & you will please to deliver to him the forged Bank Notes ___ the Paper blotter things found upon the Prisoners or in their house.
Letter sent on behalf of the Governor of the Bank of England to the Mayor of Carmarthen regarding the Baines forgery case, 13 December 1817 [image 1 of 3]
  • Papers relating to the trial of Elizabeth and Jane Baines who were convicted of forging a two pound note and were sentenced to death. The two later received pardons and their sentences were reduced to a year's imprisonment.
Trial of Elizabeth and Jane Baines, forgers, 1818