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Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 Lost and Found; or Light in The Prison. A Narrative with Original Letters, of a Convict, condemned for forgery
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"The painstaking researches of Mr J.W. Earnshaw of Sydney have revealed that the convicts as James Grove, a well-to-do die sinker and engraver in Birmingham, who, being then 33 years of age, was sentenced at Warwick Gaol Delivery on 23 March, 1802, to life imprisonment for engraving a copper plate, which could be used for forging Bank of England notes" (Ferguson, 1851-1900, p.308).

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