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London Court Records Sentences Fraudster Marmaduke Davenport
London section reports Alexander Day alias Marmaduke Davenport and other aliases convicted of multiple indictments for fraud involving taking goods and not paying. He is fined 2001, fined five pounds per indictment, forced to stand in the pillory in Covent Garden and Ludgate Hill, imprisoned two years, and bound to good behavior for two more. Other items include trials adjourned, Royal visits, treasury funding for ships, and parliamentary proceedings on the Plunket case, mint regulation, and suppression of the Blacks in Hampshire.
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