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MG-A(G.752.001
2 Jan 1752:31 (349)
London, August 19. Extract of a letter from Gosport, August
22. . . [11 lines describing a court martial aboard a ship
in the harbor and the punishment] About nine o'clock the
prisoner was brought out of the Monarch, and put on board
the long boat. . . [2 lines] the marshal, and officers
appointed to see the sentence executed went into their boat
with a drummer; then the sentence of the court martial was
read.
When that was over, a boatswain's mate, who stood ready
with a cat of nine tails, gave him ten lashes on his bare
back; from thence some of the boats shot a head, and took
the long boat in tow; the boats attending round it to the
next ship, the drum beating all the way, Round about
Cuckolds, &c. In that manner they proceeded from ship to
ship, along side each his sentence was read, and he received
the same number of lashes, the drum beating as before on
their leaving one ship till they came to the next. . . [11
lines]
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