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CLAUDE LORAINE SMITH, Ordinary of Newgate
A 4pp. a.l.s. by C. Loraine Smith, dated July 31st, 1796, concerning 'George Davenport a most desperate and notorious Thief and Robber who has for many years past infested the Kingdom' explaining how he had been acquitted on a technicality at the last assizes and that Captain Hardwick had asked for a strong escort to conduct him to Chatham the recommendation being he be put '...on board some of His Majesty's ships destind for distant foreign service', but Davenport meant to evade this by surrendering himself to the Navy Board as a previous deserter, 'In point of art, ingenuity, boldness, and agility I really don't believe there is his equal in the world'; and another. (2)
A 4pp. a.l.s. by C. Loraine Smith, dated July 31st, 1796, concerning 'George Davenport a most desperate and notorious Thief and Robber who has for many years past infested the Kingdom' explaining how he had been acquitted on a technicality at the last assizes and that Captain Hardwick had asked for a strong escort to conduct him to Chatham the recommendation being he be put '...on board some of His Majesty's ships destind for distant foreign service', but Davenport meant to evade this by surrendering himself to the Navy Board as a previous deserter, 'In point of art, ingenuity, boldness, and agility I really don't believe there is his equal in the world'; and another. (2)