Henry Simons, a Polish Jew, robbed in Cranford Bridge then falsely charged with perjury by the innkeeper and accessories in 1751. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

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