The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 23, June 10, 2007, Article 14

SIR WILLIAM SHARINGTON: MINT OFFICIAL CAUGHT CLIPPING COINS

The practice of clipping coins was discussed tonight on British 
television. While editing this issue I happened to see an episode 
of the BBC's "How We Built Britain", which "looks at how England 
was transformed by the extraordinary flowering of architecture, 
ideas and exploration of the Elizabethan Renaissance." One of 
the magnificent homes profiled was built by a Bristol Mint official 
gone bad.

"Sir William Sharington was from a wealthy Norfolk family, held 
various positions at court and was knighted at the coronation of 
Edward VI. In his role as Vice Treasurer of the Bristol Mint, 
Sharington was found to be clipping the coins in collusion with 
Lord Thomas Seymour. They were arrested in 1549. Sharington 
confessed, blamed Seymour who was later beheaded..." 
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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