Eponymous Clent

Wanted for:

Thirty-nine cases of fraud, counterfeiting, selling and circulating lude and unlicensed literature, impersonating an impecunious Duke, impersonating a priest, impersonating a magistrate, impersonating a horse doctor, breach of promise, forty-seven moon-lit flits without payment of debts, robbing shrines, fleeing from justice before trial, stealing pies from windows, purloining tankards, blankets and small furniture from inns, fabricating the Great Palthrop Horse Plague for purposes of profit, membership of that notorious company of thieves and fraudulents led by Mistress Fleetfinger, operating a hurdy-gurdy without a licence. The authorities would also like to question him about the disappearance of one Halk Partridge.

Description:

Plump, ponderous, and generally assuming the manners of one above his station. Last seen wearing the waistcoat of one Benwith Cripe and the pocket watch of one Sneep Tether, both of whom would like to see their possessions again. Gifted with a most mischievously used way with words. The public are advised against lending him money, buying anything from him, letting him rooms or believing a word he says. Contrary to his professions, he will not pay you the day after tomorrow.