excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 February 2019), October 1771, trial of Henry Bodkin (t17711023-66)' (171 words)
excerpt from 'Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 14 February 2019), October 1771, trial of Henry Bodkin (t17711023-66)' (171 words)
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[Henry Bodkin was found guilty of stealing money from Daniel Coats on 23 October 1771 and sentenced to transportation] John Crouch: [...] I belong to the first troop of grenadiers; on Friday evening, Sept. the 20th about eight o'clock, I was at the Two Brewers at Knightsbridge, my brother came; I took coach for him, there were besides the prisoner [Henry Bodkin], John Drew , and Walter Hanniford, [Daniel] Coats came in the evening; first Coats called for a pint of beer [...] he was not very sober [...] he went then to a table where Mackoy and Drew were sitting; and he treated them with beer, and said they should have what they could drink, if they would sing, they fetched the prisoner into the tap room; the sailor ordered a half gallon bowl of punch, then the prisoner came in and sung; the sailor called for six half crown bowls of punch, which he paid for; after that three more. I persuaded him at the sixth bowl to have no more; he was exceeding drunk[.] |
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