[lbo-talk] Missing Passage in English Versions of Capital

[James Heartfield]

Maybe they thought that English people would be offended by the implication of backwardness – though it does stand up historically. Witch trials died off in the early eighteenth century, and the legislation was repealed in 1736. Isaac Newton (having taken over at the Royal Mint) worked out that as many as 20 per cent of all coins in circulation were forged, and in 1699 had forger William Chaloner tried and hung. The Cragg Coiners were hung in 1770 and 1775.