fleet adj.
counterfeit.
London Guide 69: The found money is counterfeit, or screens, or else Fleet notes. | ||
Real Life in London I 555: The purse of course is found to contain counterfeit money—Flash-screens or Fleet-notes. | ||
Hist. Fleet Marriages n.p.: Many of the early Fleet parsons and tavern-keepers in the neighbourhood fitted up a room in their respective lodgings [...] as a chapel. |