Even though I was born at Elizabeth the 1st times I am very intelligent to know this answer: Nicholas Jennings the counterfeit crank- was a London beggar, caught with a bag of blood that he used to paint fake injuries on his head, and begged for peoples money , afterwards, when he was caught he was severely punished, of course.
he was a Tudor beggar in Elizabethan times !
A counterfeit crank is someone from the Tudor times who would pretend to have a epilepic fit so that other people woulf feel sorry for him. Basicly a beggar begging for atention. The counterfeit crank would eat soap so that he frothed from the mouth and writh around on the floor.
(Counterfeit is usually an adjective meaning faked or forged. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to fake or forge.(adjective) "Most of the gold watches sold on the street are counterfeit."(verb): "Many criminals over the years have tried to counterfeit US bills."(verb): "Although she actually disliked her uncle, she was able to counterfeit tears at his funeral."
Counterfeit means a fake, a forgery, a deliberately false imitation.(from the Old French counterfaire, to copy or duplicate)To counterfeit is to illegally forge, fake, or copy an item.
When it's part of the title, it needs to be capitalized. I like Coach Jennings. In the following sentence you wouldn't need to capitalize coach. My coach is Mr. Jennings.
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Nicholas Jennings was a notorious counterfeiter and criminal from the 19th century. He was known as the "King of the Cranks" because of his skill in producing counterfeit coins and banknotes. Jennings was eventually caught and sentenced to prison for his illegal activities.
Nicholas Jennings impersonated the poor and took money from innocent people. He lived in the 16th-17th century and was classed as a thief.
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A counterfeit crank is someone from the Tudor times who would pretend to have a epilepic fit so that other people woulf feel sorry for him. Basicly a beggar begging for atention. The counterfeit crank would eat soap so that he frothed from the mouth and writh around on the floor.
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two disguises.
a couterfeit crank looks like a tramp in robes pretanding to look homeless
Perry Mason - 1957 The Case of the Counterfeit Crank 5-27 was released on: USA: 28 April 1962
taking money from innocent people and impersinating the poor
He was last caught in London with the old scrap trick.
he impersonated the poor and pretended to be like then and he pretended not to be rich so he could get money Nicholas Jennings was the most famous conning person ever in London and could fool any one that walked past him.
Nicholas Jennings is a vagrant (con man) in the 1500's.Nicholas Jennings pretended to be beggar he went covered in dirt and pigs blood, he told many lies until he was exposed by a man called Thomas Harman.Nicolas Jennings was his fake name that's what people knew him as, but Nicholas blunt was his real name.He claimed to have been suffering from the falling sickness for eight years.Thomas Harman had Nicholas Jennings followed by two boys from his printers, who saw him beg all day, renewing the blood from a bladder, and putting fresh mud on his clothes.He was also stripped and found to be fit and well, but escaped naked across the fields in the dark.Having then spent a period begging in the guise of a sailor whose ship and cargo had been lost at sea, and then as "Nicholas Jennings", a well-dressed hatter who had come to London for work, Nicholas happened to accost Harman's printer on New Year's Day 1567. The printer recognised him and had him arrested.After denials and another escape attempt Nicholas Jennings made a confession and was found to have "a pretty house" in Newington, "well furnished" and with a wife living there.